432 - Resuming Art

(get a cuppa, this entry is 1,783 words long, when you start with the normal fonts).

In 2016, I had posted several entries with my art of that same year as well as some pieces from 2004 until that point, and then I stopped. In the last blog entry about my art, numbered 154, ending 2016, I'd specified that I hadn't taken photos of our xmas decorations, intending to snap some shots and make another entry to post them as well as new art I'd make, and then I simply forgot all about both resolutions, making no new art for several years, until now! 

431- Trauma lemonades and post-traumatic silver linings

(copyright free image, edited by me. Hope you notice the mashed in word trauma inside the lemonade. Hereafter, 1,639 words). 

I think all my readers know by now that I've experienced multiple forms of trauma in my childhood and youth, resulting in several ptsd's and cptsd's, which have plagued my entire life with lasting effects, symptoms, difficulties and struggles. I wrote about all of these quite extensively, though I feel it cannot ever be exhaustive as that'd require entire (auto/)biographies. 

Thus far, however, I never discussed any positive aspects, either of my traumatic life, or of my struggles with mental illnesses. I had planned to do that 2 years ago, after seeing Sophie Harrison's blog entries about silver linings she'd found in her life, but finding positives in my case have always been tough, so I'd forgotten the entire idea and let time slide by without even starting a draft, until late April.