It has been challenging these last three months for me to keep focus on what’s important when everything demands that value. Unfortunately creating new sculptue has taken a back seat. I have seemingly been in a constant state of “catch up” worked desperately to get my web sites back online. Additionally I tasked myself with setting them up for Ecommerce so that I would not have to depend on third party sites for sales.

I never quite got those sites to perfection before I had to deviate to entering my work in a couple of art competitions whose deadlines demanded I set aside what I was doing. But while in the middle completing applications my computer took a power surge from a power outage that blew out the motherboard forcing me to turn my attention to aquiring a replacement. I took the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 11 from 10 since Microsoft will soon no longer be supporting the former version in the near future. While in the middle of that Covid struck and though I was not severly sick, it the self-confinement did test my reserves. There’s more…. but you get the idea, so I’ll stop illuminating on my woes for now, and rather cut to the good news I would like to pass on.

When I went to the Starkweather Art Center in Romeo, Michigan this past week to pick up my entry in the 2024 Thumb Area Juried Art Exhibit, to my surprise and Delight I found that my entry – “Convergence”- had won 3rd place honors. This Just goes to show if you keep forehead down and on the grindstone eventually something good will come of it. Sometimes that something is just enough to keep you on your pathway… With a temporary smile even… Till next time.