Saying Goodbye and Positive Thoughts.....

It's been awhile since I visited here with everyone.  This is the busy time of year for me with "Ghoultide Gathering" only two months away, magazine deadlines, finishing up on custom work and the ever and never ending pattern sales (yay).....Even with my life being so full there is always room for challenges and emotional chaos!  The artist life is a difficult one because often the real world and our artistic world will collide and knock our creative mojo right out the window and it can take days, weeks sometimes months to get it back.  Without our "mojo" work can come to a complete halt!  This is kinda where I've been this last week, in mojo limbo!

As many of you have read on my Facebook page I lost a good friend this last week quite unexpectedly.  Though death of anyone close to you is never an easy thing to deal with unexpected death seems just that much more difficult.  He was to young to leave us but leave us he did!  When receiving news like this our minds begin to search and analyze every possible scenario of what our loved ones might have felt or experienced before they left us for good.  Not a healthy way to handle such a tragedy but a human way nonetheless!  Grief becomes a close and necessary companion as we begin our trek back to normalcy.  Tears come and go at the most inopportune moments as images and phrases seem to knock holes into that dam of emotions....but forward we go!

With "Ghoultide Gathering" only a couple months away I have thrown myself into work as if it is my salvation from grief!  Logic seems pointless here and now....I know that as age keeps knocking on my life door that it does the same to those I love and so we begin that unhappy venture of attending more funerals than weddings as the years pass!  It is never to late to grasp the horns of life and go for a ride once in awhile.  We need to hold onto special moments like they are life's secret to youth and prosperity because they actually are.  Let go of the annoyances and the "Nay" sayers and surround yourself with a constant glow of happiness....even if your happiness is self made it is still happiness!   Learn to appreciate each and every breath as if it were your last...Don't have a life of good intentions have a life filled with follow through and adventures!  

It is always easy to sit on the sidelines and make these promises to yourself but wouldn't it be more fun to carry that ball to the goal line and do the "happy dance" of making a memory!  I may not be able to get around much anymore or for that matter even drive but I will make every day I have left count.....with a kind word for someone that needs it or a gesture that will, for a second, change a life in a good way!   Good-bye negativity and Hello Life!  RIP Mel....you are loved and will be deeply missed!