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The Ripple: When a friend’s Depression Becomes your Struggle too.
I was recently having a conversation with a friend, about one of their friends, who is going through a lot right now. The meat of the conversation often focused on how difficult it can be to be in a relationship with someone who is going through a difficult time or who is working through challenging mental health or similar issues. One of the common themes in this discussion was how the other person’s “stuff” affects, well, other people.
Carrying on When the Future is Uncertain
For what it’s worth, my context here is “the world at large” and not a specific incident or issue in my own life. I mean, other than the fact that the world is, well, you know, insane. Also, to be clear, I live in the US, so I don’t (currently) deal with roving bands of … Read more
Existence is Absurd
I’ve been listening to a lot of Great Courses lectures on Audible lately, mostly with a preference on history, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and the human condition in general, and it’s been a real mind trip. I’ve been considering (and reconsidering… and re-re-considering….) the absurdity of existence, and I’ve had a lot of “young” philosophical thoughts … Read more
Ok, So Let’s Try Selling Things
I’m drawing a boat load of these things every week. One for each kid’s lunch every day they go to school, and a bunch of others that are little more than doodles, and are destined for the recycle bin. But even so, I make more on top of that that somehow feel more.. real? Perhaps … Read more
I am my happy place
Man that’s self helpy and a little saccharine, isn’t it? that’s another thing I wouldn’t ever see myself doing or saying – and it’s all part of this grand experiment to try new things. And yet, I find myself liking it. Because you know what? I should be my happy place. So should you. So … Read more
Keep it weird
What would it mean to you to keep it weird? I don’t mean like “being weird” – mooing like a deranged cow every time someone says “hour” is certainly weird and if that’s your thing, well, you do you. No I mean what’s weird to you? To me – it’s deciding to have a color … Read more
Uh oh I think I might be creating a brand
Bit by bit this all seems to be coming together! I have characters that I love (even if they are reminiscent of ISAC and Dem!) I’ve decided on a fairly limited color palette of black tombow brush or zebra ball, and four molotow fluorescents, and I’m just creating and churning out new stuff. It’s pretty … Read more
Just hangin’
I’m starting to think I should maybe work on creating some stickers. I really love these little guys and I want to see them all around and if even love to write a book or something. Today we took the kids to blick (seriously my favorite art supply store of all time) and I ended … Read more
Some days you need a little brain tape
You ever have one of those days where it feels like your brain is simply too goopy and you are just struggling to hold it all in your skull? Focusing is painful – not like headache painful – but “holy-crap-this-is-beyond-exhausting” painful? Introducing Brain Tape! This new revolutionary product is here to help you Hold it … Read more
And away we go
One of my biggest hang ups, creatively, is the idea of permanence – that all art is permanent and that means it needs to be perfect. This is unfortunate for me, then, because every time I look at something I’ve done, I find something wrong with it. So to hopefully counteract that, I’ve decided to … Read more