A sad day, since most of my immediate and extended family are in Chicago for the funeral of my cousin, Nick. I am so sad, and will never understand his decision to leave earth. He was so young, 23. This has dominated my thoughts this week, and my heart is back in my home state.

I need prayers for my continued journey of figuring a lot of things out, and what my future is going to look like as I look towards working outside the home again, working through longstanding issues, and being a child of God.

I'm excited to soon be posting some of my original paintings and interior design photos.

I'm not sure about this blogging thing. I have never thought much about it, but my writing teacher suggested doing it just to keep creativity going and myself in the mindset of producing something tangible everyday. Feeling very creative right now, I didn't sleep at all last night. Put together cool book of photos from London, wrote a song on my guitar, and I have done 4 paintings this week. Tired now! Can't seem to listen to enough music today....it keeps me breathing I think. Lots of Dylan, Buffett (the good stuff, not margaritaville crap), Sheryl Crow, and my new fave newton faulkner. Took a nap this evening out of exhaustion, and now I think I'll go try to sleep til morning.