Moving on instead

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

Vincent Van Gogh

Google shut down my blogspot for nearly three years. I had redesigned my website for my personal domain, and my web gal reconfigured it in WordPress. At my request, she linked this blog, with comments allowed. That opened the door for someone in China to fill the comments section with links to a pornography site. Google swooped in and slapped a huge red flag warning on both, and shut everything completely down, including my design and illustration website. I took down the website and a redirect was added to my Behance /Adobe page. I needed a justification for the outrageous software fee I paid a month.

Joining a local writer's group to motivate myself to write again, I recently discovered that my blogspot and petition to reinstate it was back online. At times when I haven't had anything new to share, I've opened this blogspot and read a past published post. What a time capsule into my past life...and 82 entries, seriously, did I really write that much? 

Someone back then told me I whined too much about my work and clients, the man I was seeing at the time resented the fact that I was spending too much time writing, when as he said, we could be hiking or doing something together. So I closed this chapter of my life in 2010, it's a radically different world than it was 15 years ago, now there is AI and Canva, and I'll be sharing some thoughts about their influence, far eclipsing the stockart tsunami of the late nineties. I'm going to dismiss that voice in my head that says I am not a writer, I'm an artist... digital creator is the new term these days. I have Grammarly to help correct my punctuation and even more if I want. 

Courage is fear turned inside out. Wish

me luck as I navigate this new chapter ahead.