Well I think I am not recovering from my Dad's death as quickly as I had hoped.  I can't seem to finish my projects I have too many started at one time.  It took a long time and serious concentration to get into the habit of one project at a time.  I rarely did more than random idea sketches until the original project was finished.  
Right now I have a wood project, a painting, and working on designs for a series all at the same time.  Its been terrible because I am losing concentration on all three things.  I feel unfocused and disrupted.
I just wanted my few watchers to know that I am still here but it will probably be at least a couple weeks before I can finish anything well enough to post.

On the other hand a copy and paste from the previous journal:
I have been around DA for a while.  I have been around life for a while.  Artists, craftsmen, and creators are some of the most intelligent, visual, quick-thinkers I have ever known.  We can also be the most unhealthy.  Sometimes its the sitting, the work or just that we get left in the background by employers.  After all its an under-rated and underpaid career being an idea-making creator.  A lot of times there is no medical insurance and if there is- it can be almost nill.  That is why I have a day job, the steady paycheck and the medical insurance.  It doesn't always make me happy.

Still its nice if we can stick together- help each other out once in a while.  One highly creative person to another.  So if you can spare $5, $10, Help this wonderful artist out.  She has Lyme Disease.  She is offering some things for those donating more than $20- greeting cards, prints, corsets etc..
[link]  that is without spaces http  ://www.  indiegogo.com/  projects/help-sidney-eileen-defeat-the-dread-lyme?c=home

After all $5 is just another bag of chips anyway.