Follow your bliss...: sumi paper

Showing posts with label sumi paper. Show all posts

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Bones of the Earth series...

Detail of August 14th, 2009

Bones of the Earth, Fieldstone, August 14, 2009, acrylic monotype on Sumi and Stonehenge paper, 8 x 8 (I haven't decided which way is up with this one...)

Bones of the Earth, Fieldstone, August 16, 2009, acrylic monotype on Sumi and Stonehenge paper, 8 x 8

Detail of August 16, 2009

Been concentrating more on my writing than mark making this weekend...these are leftovers from last weekend...it's pouring rain and grumbling out there right now...a bit of the tail of "Bill" passing by...I've been wondering when my last weekend on the porch will be...it's been a good run, I'll have to think about putting away the portable studio soon...

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.