Creativity & Recollections

​August 7th, 2024
Summer/fall 2018 I was painting like crazy. Probably the most I'd painted in years. I also started my YouTube channel then, though it would be 2020 before I was consistently putting up videos every week. It was definitely a turning point of sorts, the 6 year mark between 2012 when I quit my office job and started traveling and pursuing creative work and 2024 (which is this year) when I finally feel like so much of what I set my heart on when it came to having a home and work I love, fully came into realization. I will say I've been living my dream all along but the struggle to survive has always been an overwhelming factor in my life... but this year is so different. I'm not saying I'm exactly where I'd like to be across the board, there's always something more. But this year I've had time to really breathe, stretch, relax in between my whirl of projects and treat myself a bit. The past years doing anything just for me meant moving a utility payment or losing sleep. I was always stretched so thin between day to day work and creative projects. The week my sister took this picture I was only sleeping a few hours a night, after a 10 hour day job and everything else.
Painting and writing was something I mostly really did late at night, only to be up again at 5 a for work again. wow.  I'm honestly so glad I'm going through all these pics, it's such a great reminder that all my intention setting and constant drive to keep going on my dreams regardless of all the times I was tempted to throw in the towel, has been well worth the trip.

I've been adding a ton of pasts posts to this blog today. Something I've been working on now and then since last September and I'm remembering so many things, realizing how far I've come. Feeling truly deeply blessed for certain. ​

Love this photo of me at work compliments of my sister Heather. Painting non-stop all this month. Tons of little experimental pieces and other more complete works I'll share pics of soon!
8/11/2018