It’s been a minute since I posted a blog on this platform, so why don’t I start one now? What should I blog about? Art? Life? Health? Myself?

How about I just combine it all and do what I do best? Paint and Blog! Painting I have been doing and lots of it too. A lot has been going on with this artist since I last posted a blog on this platform. I’ve posted a few since on my website, customart2imagine.com and a lot has been happening since I’ve posted a blog on my website as well.

Allow me to just bring you up to speed on a few things before going into a more Indepth blog post. I quit smoking; I continue to be at the mercy of chronic back pain, I’m battling past illnesses that rebounded on me, I’m fighting new illnesses and despite all this, I continue to paint and stubbornly refuse to hang up my paint brushes. Stubbornly refuse? I don’t think I’m being stubborn about it; I just believe it’s my only self-preservation.

In 2 days, on August 3rd, it will mark ninety days since I took a drag on a cigarette. That I’m very proud of accomplishing because it is a huge accomplishment in my life after many failed attempts at quitting of 30 plus years of smoking. It’s probably going to sound cliché but, I feel like many illnesses hit me since quitting smoking. I told my doctor that and she said she’s heard that many times from former smokers, so I guess it’s a cliché. Perhaps smoking was actually hindering all these illnesses. Yet, I must grin and bear it.

If you have been following my blogs on my website as well as my posts on social media, you pretty much know few things I’ve been going through. You know all about my past illnesses and battles I’ve fought and went to war with. Some I thought been destroyed in battle only to now learn they just been licking and healing their wounds before wheeling in the Trojan Horse and issuing an all-out surprise attack on me.

Now I have to endure all the lovely testing awaiting me at hospitals and specialists. Back into the battle I go. Back into the war. Back to battling psychedelics without any drug induced psychedelics that plays on the memories of my mind and the visions of my eyes. Are you following me? Thats a war I’ve been battling and fighting in for most my life. I doubt I’ll ever win this war but maybe I can win the battle once again with the help of those white coats that gain entry into the core of my mind and can manipulate the demons that have been manipulating me for so long. With them manipulating the demons while I help myself by swallowing the cocktails that they feed me in capsule shaped candies, I can feel somewhat human again. Are you feeling me?

I love painting. I love being an artist and I love expressing myself through art as well as bringing this joy of art to others. I want to continue to do all of this for many more years to come and the only way I will accomplish this, is to get healthy and staying well. I’ll go to war again and I’ll fight hard like I always have done, and I’ll win this battle again like I have done time after time.

It might be a high mountain to climb to take cover from the enemy but with all the Generals and Captains and fans of customart2imagine like all of you by this soldier’s side, I believe I’ll be just fine. Until my next blog or my next painting, I’ll be fighting full force. Don’t forget me.

Sincerely,

David L. ~Artist

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