The Final Pages of Chapter One of January...

It has been an emotionally draining week.

Poe has an incident that required two trips to the vet. Burned 12 hours of sick leave, costs ran over 200$ but in the end he is worth much more to me than that.

He is on the mend now, eating and peeing as intended.

I am taking things slow and easy these days. I am working on one piece, just finished another, though it really isn't a piece, it is something out of my Moleskine Sketchbook. It was done with pencil and Unipen .005.

This weekend I intended to work on a piece that I have been wrestling with for sometime, but with the emotional roller coaster of Vet visits and trying to make everything meet, I am literally wrung out. (note to self: don't forget the B12)

I have been reading Gene Wolf's The Sorcerer's House.  It reads like a David Lynch movie that actually has a plot. It also may have triggered some really disturbing dreams I have been having lately.

January turns the page tomorrow and February begins a new chapter on Monday. The first chapter of this year was an interesting one, the plot is slowly developing.  Cultivating a normal life is my primary concern this year.  The only major change I am planning on is finding a new Oncologist. 

I am taking this year slow. I am grateful for what I have and I want to maintain it. The simple life is not so boring as one may think.

The cats, Poe and Lenore just had breakfast. Poe is trying to hide the left overs under a plastic bag as if he thinks it will keep it safe from Lenore. 

The morning sun is streaming through the corners of the dark curtains on the windows. The weather is going to be nice today. I am on the final pages of Chapter One of January. Think I will read them slow and carefully. There maybe hints of what is to come.

Year of the Crow...or how to live in a Fantasy World

It is the beginning of a new year. Though it is hard to predict whether the year will be one to remember for better or ill, I am starting the year with good intentions. But you know what the old proverbial saying is, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions...".

So in starting the new year with said intentions just maybe my undoing. The other is to take things as they come or do nothing.

My health is slowing returning. Vitamin supplements, fruit, green tea and plenty of sleep aided in my return to a semblance of normality.

Below are some sketches that I have whipped out the past year...my goal is to get back to drawing on a regular basis and try to manage distractions..ie TV, PC games etc.

As I mentioned, these are just simple sketches, not what I would even consider "pieces". I am slow, usually due to the amount of detail I work into a piece and also slow to how I build compositions.

These were done in my Moleskine sketch books I carry with me to work. Fortunately I have time between calls to crank something small out. But serious pieces take much more time and dedication which means working at home into the wee hours of the night.

But in the end it is worth it. So here is to a new year...which I dubbed "Year of the Crow"...actually on February 7th it will become the Year of the Horse according to the Chinese Zodiac. But I have often been accused of living in a Fantasy World and I am too old to change.

Time for breakfast tea then work...