Emerging from the Ashes!!!!

Well Boys and Girls, When last I left you, I was dissolved by the Governor, I had lost my studio, no work was coming in, and I was scared! And guess what? It got worse! Last year was a veritable buffet of Cancer, Nagy's heart attack, and then pneumonia. We bought the shaved ice cart, and it saved our house, but it was really hard work and beat us up both physically and mentally. I started the Goodie business, and that paid the bills, too, but more backbreaking work. I don't want to just sit around, but I want to feel like I have accomplished something. Then, even though I had been trying all along, I decided I wasn't going to take "no" for an answer, and decided to become a guerilla artist! I went after everything! Slowly, the sun broke through the clouds (perhaps because it was afraid of me!) The last guitar on Sunset Strip broke the auction record, I got another one, I got not one, but two mural commissions, I joined the mural initiative, and the San Fernando Valley Arts Council, and I am back! Whether this is purely delusional, or I have really re-emerged, I am feeling pretty good these days! I must say, that in the last couple of months, I have met and made friends with a lot of new people who are wonderful. They are artists and it is wonderful to have a peer group of people that are within driving distance. I actually have some place to go sometimes now! Now, if I could just get my horsie to mosaic, life will be perfect. The very best thing is that I am embarking on what will be the most important work of my life, which will be a National Anti-War Memorial. It seems like we have found a place to put it, and now begins the funding finding! There will be a solicitation soon! I am partnered with John Kosh, who was the Art Director for the Beatles, among other astounding accomplishments. He is inspirational just to be around. We are going to try something new, which is to send an open message to the public so that big donors won't be able to censor the content of our piece. Stay tuned for more. So, I have bounced back. I am still trying to not be let down when people tell you one thing and do another, but given a choice I would be the same because the opposite of sensitivity is bitterness, and don't want to go down that road, ever. I will stay a marshmallow. Off we go to a new chapter, and I am getting up there, so I am trying to make these count for something. I love a lot of people, and am lucky that they have stayed with me. Stay tuned, I won't be gone so long this time.