If you have any artistic abilities, whether it be painting, drawing, tattooing, crafting, you know that we have to keep our emotions in check because if we don’t, it begins showing up in our work.
With the year 2020 throwing obstacles at us all and weighing heavy on our mental well being as well as physical well being, we all can’t take much more bad news or happenings in our life.

The year of 2020 is ending for me, with bad news and bad happenings.

Since the start of this month, November, 2020, it’s been bad news after bad news. Just 2 weeks ago, I was told the news of my Uncle and my cousin getting the Covid. A few days ago, I get the news of my brother and his wife getting the Covid as well as my mom being found crying in pain as she laid helpless on her living room floor for thirty minutes before being found.

My mother had to get emergency surgery with a hip replacement and she suffered a broken femur as well. She’s recovering and being sent to rehab. While she’s in rehab (Nursing Home) her brother, my uncle, passed away from the Covid while on ventilator in the hospital. News that she will soon find out.

As for myself, I also received some regrettable news. News I’ll just have to accept and keep living with positivity. It pretty much was inevitable I guess since it runs in my family.

We can keep positive as much as we can but that’s where my creating comes into play. Although creating had kept me sane and leveled, with all that has happened in just a couple short weeks, I could see my emotional state coming through onto my current painting.

I need to stop creating for the time being until I get grasp of my emotional state and to find some serenity.

I will go visit a dear friend for Thanksgiving and my birthday coming up in December. Perhaps being with someone I love and care for and can spend time with, will help me emotionally.

I will see about continuing my current painting of Ben, once I return back home. I know the pandemic is hitting everyone’s emotions and mental state really hard and I pray for you all it gets better for you.

Faith is what I believe in and faith is what will keep me strong with my condition and what my family is suffering as well.

Thank you for lending an ear. Stay safe. Stay strong.

Sincerely,

Dave

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