Follow your bliss...: River of Falling Stars

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

River of Falling Stars series

I made this at about the same time as the others in the previous post, but tinkered a little longer before I felt right about it...I'm a sucker for blue....

What is it about the color blue...it's the color of perception...a boy color...but lots of girls like it, especially when it's a boy with blue eyes...it's a color that is cold or cool...or Hey, that's COOL! It's a color of sadness...it's also a soothing color...or one could be swearing a blue streak (0y, that's bad)...

This drawing is Just Blue...one blue colored pencil, I wore it down to a nubbin...

Sometimes, it is just blue...

What can I say...it's just a pretty color to play with...

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.