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Creativity Is For My Health

The days have been a challenge and I can only hope that means better times are on their way. I haven’t been my best self lately.

I went to the doctor on Thursday to get an EKG and some blood tests. There doesn’t seem to be any huge concerns other than my sugar being a little high, but they want me to come back soon and do a stress test in a couple months.

I stopped on the way home to mail about 40 press kits and drove by Spy Pond where the sun was sparkling on the water. I’m still struggling to get out. I really should have driven around or went for a walk to take pictures, but I’m struggling with agoraphobia and institutionalization after being kept indoors almost two of the last three years.

I took some photos when I was out, and when I got home, I found that the free editing program I’ve been using was no longer working on my phone. Technically the app went down in 2018, but it still worked on my phone until the other day. I asked for suggestions of good free photo editing apps and was told to try Snapseed and PicsArt, so I gave them a go.

These were the photos I took…

Jymi Cliche in a johnny

I thought that one was kind of cool with the grunge effect. It would make a cool book cover for a psych ward book.

That same day, my parents went to the beach and my mom sent me a picture of her wrapped in the towel I gave her for Mother’s Day from my Wicked Cliche Store.

I did some work on the Wicked Cliche Creative Friends page that features art by a very diverse group of artist from around the world who I call friends.

Please check that out.

I got a gift in the mail from my friend who makes soap. She’s listed last on the Creative Friends page under WickedSoftOrganics. This is the Trans flag one.

I listened to my favorite Nas album, God’s Son on vinyl.

and I cooked this delicious meal….

I cheated and got pre-made sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, but I made the chicken which had salt, pepper, and fresh thyme on it, and was cooked in a sauce made from honey, pineapple juice, Dijon mustard, garlic, and cornstarch, plus pineapple chunks and cashews. It was delicious and easy. I’ll do it again for sure.

Here’s an inspiring song from the God’s Son album by Nas…

Happy Juneteenth, if you can really say that. It seems more like it was made a holiday to shut people up while actual actions to fix systematic racism are not being taken.

Peace

Design For New Book Cover

I saw my family for Mother’s Day today. We hung out for several hours preparing food, eating, talking, sharing photos of pets, etc. My sister helped me figure out how to add tags to my blog posts, but we still haven’t figured out how to use it as a regular blog to follow other bloggers. I may not be able to, but we will see. Both my sisters helped me create a linktree account though, and that should help point people in the right direction as well. I can put it on my Instagram as my main link, so I don’t have to constantly switch the links depending which page I’m promoting in my post…

https://linktr.ee/wickedcliche?fbclid=IwAR3SSUgUD-o_DOi4fqo9ROJz3OixFc5YLCiZiSLDUXJMQGrb21UKTz1TcTY

You can click there to see it if you want. It’s not especially exciting, but I am kind of excited about it, as it is a helpful tool.

The other thing I’m most excited about today is that I created a cover for my upcoming memoir. I’m gonna try to redo it with some different colors and hopefully a better drawing of the person at the machine, but I got this idea the other night and was excited that I was able to make it work, even if I have to do it over to make it a little better, I think it’s kinda cool…

“I Write the System To Fight the System So I Might Right the System”… coming out around the 20th anniversary of 9/11 if I self publish.

What else? I don’t really know. I gotta get back to the usual life later today, but it was nice to get a break.

I’m looking kinda vintage…

or do I mean old?