Happy Holidays and into the new year!♥️💚❄️🎄🎁🎅

I just wanted to make a quick post to say Happy Holidays!

I hope all of you have had a wonderful year! Things have been steadily better here and I feel like I’m finally starting to get where I wanted to be as far as productivity. I still have a long way to go and I still have a lot to do to make up for time but I’m getting back on the right path and it feels so good. I’m hoping to continue this trend into the new year. This all has been a huge reminder and lesson to be kinder to myself, and I feel like we all could use a little of that in our own lives especially as current events go on. I know fatigue is setting in for a lot of us right now so remember to be patient with yourself, give yourself time to heal and remember that forgiving yourself for your mistakes is one of the most crucial steps to bettering yourself going forward.

Remember that community is important in all of this too! We just aren’t built to go through this life alone and friendship is one of the most important things we have. I know that without all of you I don’t think I’d be where I am right now. This community has been the best motivation and best support through all the stress and changes in the last year. I really cannot imagine where I’d be without the love and friendship you guys give to me. So, from the core of me, thank you all for being here. Thank you all for reading my words, seeing and appreciating my artwork, chatting with me into the night and just generally being my friends. Thank you all for always helping me remember that I’m worth more than the bad nights where I feel lost and that I’m worth more than a dry spell of artwork following heartache and life changing events. It’s hard, as an artist, to not tie your self worth with what you can and cannot create and it’s so important to have a solid friend group who can remind you that you matter.

Going into this new year, I just want to remind you all that you matter too. Not just because you’re here on this service with me, but because you are uniquely you. All of you are so talented and wonderful in your own ways, weather it be art and other creative endeavors like writing or photography or your skills in gaming, coding or building, your dedication to those who matter to you, the good volunteer work some of you do, and the list can really go on and on. I know I’ve mentioned it a lot but when I think of the group of people here together I often think about how uniquely diverse and beautiful the group as a whole is. You all bring something unique and awesome to the table (even if you’re reading this and thinking “ not me”, you’re wrong!). Going into the new year, I think we all could use a bit of a reminder that we matter. That you, as an individual, matter and you uniquely being you is a beautiful thing.

Okay, I guess this isn’t a “quick post” anymore since I’ve started rambling on..

But, since we are just a stone’s throw from 2022, let me also say happy new year! I hope things finally calm down a bit in this new year with.. everything.

Thank you all for being here, and for reading all of this!

💙

-G