I Just Called Original Painting

16" x 20" Original Painting by Jason Kotecki. Oil on canvas, made with professional quality archival grade art materials. Comes finished in a matte black floater frame with a hanging wire. 

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The Story

“I Just Called to Say I Love You” is a famous Stevie Wonder song and the title of this painting. One word in that title might be more important than all the others.

When my wife Kim and I were dating, we’d spend hours and hours on the phone, talking late into the night, racking up phone bills that if bound together, would make the longest Harry Potter book look like a pamphlet.

Friendships can stall if we make them too complicated or set expectations too high. Failing to meet them finds us buried in an ever-mounting pile of “shoulds.” The more time that passes, the more time we assume is required for catching up and eventually, the relationship slowly grows stale and dies. Maybe we should focus on uncomplicating the friendships we want to fertilize.

That’s why maybe the most important word in Stevie’s classic song is...”just.”

I JUST called to say I love you. That’s it. No fanfare. No guilt trips. No phone bills weighty enough to kill a small mammal. We don’t always need to have an hour-long conversation for our relationships to thrive.

A high five or a fist bump emoji might just do the trick.