Finished piece

Someone I love as a fawn.

#13 inspiration

I know I've said this before but I can never thank these two enough for helping me get through college, without them I don't think I could've survived. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson, A beautiful being whom I love very much because of his love of science and is want to educate the world. 

Myself, this year I've been through a lot of things that should've torn me down. Very proud of myself, for becoming self-aware and proactive about the things that I care about. It's been very tough for me but I'm so happy that I got through it but hopefully I will get through things later in life. 

#6 podcast

This week I listened to the podcast American life, titled in defense of ignorance. End it tell stories about how ignorance was beneficial even helpful to people in certain situations. One of the stories was is that a girl was doing a story about her grandmother, Who lived far away in China. In Chinese custom, it is traditional for doctors, when faced with the news about a patient's demise, always break it to the family members instead of the patient themselves, leaving it up to the families to tell them whether they are dying or not. This is the case of the grandma who had stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed to pass in the next couple months. The family made the decision to never tell grandma, for they believed if one is told that they are dying then they will, even discussing it folkloric joke about two men one dying and one healthy, getting their results mixed up ,  leading the healthy want to die, and the dying one to live. they couldn't do anything for the grandmother yet they wanted to say their final goodbye without actuallg letting her know, so they decided to stage a fake wedding. The entire time emotions run high, because they knew that that was their final goodbye to the grandmother, so a lot of people did cry, and everyone told grandma that they were just happy for the couple. After that though, the months and into years, with grandma still living today. Which everybody in the story was happy about, and slightly baffled.

#5 podcast

This weeks podcast I listened to the second segment of the accidental gay parents on the longest shortest time. In the segment they talked about the children, and how was a struggle at the beginning of bringing them in, and letting them feel safe. In the care of the sister the brother and sister were abused by her boyfriend, One so much that he could not speak, and would have terrors in the night. But the couple would talk about how much they loved him but they could not fully commit to these children for they were afraid that the state would take them away because they were gay. The longest time they had the children called him uncle instead of daddy, and that they weren't sure if the state or the sister would come and try to take them away. All they could do was tell them that they were safe for now. But at the end of the segment a beautiful thing happened, they got full guardianship of the children. It's things like this like give me hope and make me happy about this world. 

# 4 podcast

I listen to the podcast longest shortest time, and this one was titled the accidental gay parents. It was about a gay couple Who lived with each other for a couple years and were enjoying their lives until one day they got the call concerning one of the couples Niece and nephew. It was child services, and they were warning that they were going to take the sisters children away, and wanted to notify the brother in case he wanted them. Only being together for a couple years, and not having made any plans for the future, they decided to go All in or none at all. They talked about how they convince the sister that they were going to take them for a couple days, and as soon as they got a hold of the children immediately applied for emergency guardianship. It goes on to talk about how they met, and how new their relationship was. I thought this piece was absolutely beautiful, The absolute and I'm conditional love still exists. 

Post #12 finished work

Sister painting to the first...

#13 inspiration

I was handed this when a parade of Hare Krishnas came through town.  I got a pamphlet of their religious texts and a cookie. 

My friend Dakota helping analyze a reading, The girl who's reading is being done is going through a struggle they say and that she has the power to over come.

Doll Jesus that I found at Saint Vinvents.

#3 podcast

I listened to spilled milk the podcast, and what they talked about was a mosier crock. A mc is a french version of a grilled cheese sandwich. It consists of fresh bread, a soft cheese, and slice of ham. They went into detail on how to make it too, buttering the bread, placing it on a low heat skillet with cheese so that way it melts, before putting it together as the master piece it is . As a kid I used to eat these all the time although i expected it to be exclusive to my family. I didn't know then that there had been an entire following about it in a culture. After this I decided to revisit this childhood favorite, and all I can say is that it was wonderful.

#12 finished piece

12# inspiration pieces

Amber doing a reading of her manuscript class, featuring her story about a brother and sister fighting for their lives in a fantasy realm. There has been many a time where I would sit and paint, as she would proof read her story to me. What a wonderful muse!

My cheeky little sister Sassing me as she's getting her hair combed. I see so much of myself in her, it's like I'm going through childhood all over again. She's been such a great inspiration to me in everything I do...

When I visited with my grandpa this weekend, he threw a guitar at me and told me to paint it for a special needs child. At first I thought when do I have the time to do this and he but he insisted so I took home. I finally got to sat down with it when I was super stressed and I found it quite relaxing

11# Work in progress

#11 inspiration pieces

Recently I've been investing myself into a color book that I bought, and for the past six hours at work I've been working on it. I have a lot of fun playing with colors.

I found this picture as I was going through my photos, and I think my sister will be my inspiration for my next piece.

Here are all my friends, people whom I absolutely adore I don't know where I'd be without them.

Response to Podcast #2

I listened to the podcast longest shortest time and their segment "Mama don't understand". In this segment they ,, the matter of race, how it is perceived, especially from the viewpoints of biracial children. It's starts off with a mother talking about her daughter who is half Indian and half white, and talks about how she struggles with finding acceptance with not only her two cultures, but with her skin color as well. She talks about how her family perceives it as well, all Indian, and how they favor fair skin and call it beautiful, and it makes her worried on how it will affect her child. They then interviewed another girl, who is half black and half white. She talks about being raised by her single mother, who is white, and what she faced trying to find her identity. She even wrote a rap song when she was 8 to her mother, talking about how her mother doesn't understand "the black thing". This story resonated with me, because I had faced something rather similar in my youth. I often felt that my own father didn't understand what it was like to be a different race, and though he tried to assure me that I was American, a lot of society is still very ignorant just because of the way I look...