Extraterrestrial Forensic Portrait Catalogue

Good Morning!

It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten around to posting. The new year is here and I’ve picked up a lot of appointments at work so I’m staying busy. I really appreciate all my clients coming through with really great ideas for tattoos to start out this year! I spent my day off drawing for around 10 hours and then had a reschedule yesterday so spent the second half of the day also drawing to try to get ahead of my appointments. It’s refreshing having so many original ideas being pitched to me and I feel like this is going to be a really good year on the tattoo front!

On a sad note, my ex husband’s grandfather passed last Saturday night. He was such a wonderful guy and both he and his wife always treated my like part of the family even after we separated. I love them both and he will definitely be missed. As I’m getting older I really am starting to feel overwhelmed with all of the people that I’ve known and loved that are no longer part of this physical world. I don’t really have a specific afterlife ideology that I subscribe to so for me it’s important to keep them in my heart and remember them through actions in my everyday life. I always wonder how others handle loss when they don’t have a deep seated belief in an afterlife, reincarnation, or some other such life after death? For me I feel there is some beauty in fitting so much into something as short and temporary as life.

I’ve been having significant sadness in relation to the current state of the world, politics, and the division of humanity as a whole. I know a lot of people are feeling this way but I’m not really sure how to address it at this point. I’m still doing weekly therapy to work on myself but I want to do more to help my communities and humanity as a whole. I don’t feel like humanity’s existence should be just based on capitalistic ideas and basic survival at this point in history. We’ve been around so long and it’s hard to understand how we keep coming back to divisive ideals and competitiveness. Why are we still fighting for basic human needs/rights?

I guess there’s just a heaviness to the world that just never goes away and shifts into new issues or regurgitated prejudices that affect everything.

Maybe someday we’ll figure it all out or maybe that would be too boring and our natures would inevitably turn back to it all. It’s all so much to think about and my mind is always racing with “whys” and “what ifs” but no solutions to the problems of the world on any larger scale than what I can do one on one in my daily interactions.

Well, that’s that and I’ll keep working to make a difference where I can even if it’s small and insignificant. Stay curious!