So you know how it is…

You’re moving along through your life.

Everything is going swell, seemingly wonderful.

Then, Wham.

Stupid, stinky, yucky thoughts just come and hit you upside your unsuspecting head.

They crawl inside.

And they take up residence in there.

You don’t even realize they are living there until they have amassed enough garbage to really stink up the joint.

Then it takes loads of work to get rid of the nasty creatures.

Just putting up an eviction notice doesn’t work.

Minute by minute, day by day, you have to really work to undo the strangle hold these bad things have wrought on you.

So you persevere cause you know the place will smell much better without them.

The sky will be so many more shades of blue when they are gone.

The water will taste fresher, the cats will purr softer.

There is a message underneath the writing that says:”her old life back”

The picture started as an old grey tones pic of a man! I gessoed the background. Used Portfolio water soluble oil pastels for most of it plus Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils for the details.The hair is a cut out from a modern mag, that I have raised for a 3d effect.

You can’t tell here , but the thread is sparkly and variegated.

This is that art journal where I have all the backgrounds already painted.

Anyway…Life is a puzzle.

We keep working it out, one piece at a time. And sometimes we have to pick up and try the same piece over and over again til it fits.

I’m working on the yucky,stupid thoughts piece. I wish I could be done with that one!

Ever onward my puzzled friends

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