Follow your bliss...: Broken points and grays

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Broken points and grays

I've been trying to restrain my temptation to go dark in my recent work, I got into trouble with my sketchbook last night playing around with a 9B pencil and wound up back peddling with a kneaded eraser...not so much a disaster, but it isn't anything that will see wall space in an exhibition...this little one from my sketchbook is full of my delicate touch with the lighter range of pencils and then I fooled around with broken pencil tips to create little jagged marks that are plant like...like bits of seaweed in the swirls of water...

March Symphony, March 18, 2008

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Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.