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Had been in a financial pickle for a while which was holding up my 10%s and making me miserable.
Thank goodness a bunch of artworks have sold in the GAMELAND show and I'm feeling back on track and unstuck, able to get back to channeling some funds towards this majorly important stuff.

First 10% went again to one of my favorite ongoing projects- The Center for Children's Happiness in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which rescues children from hopeless lives as scavengers at the municipal dump. They've made a video and a slideshow which you can watch here...and please read this wonderful essay 'Despair and Love in Cambodia' by Elia Van Tuyl which tells about the project. You're also welcome and encouraged to read the heartbreaking intro essay by David Pred Cambodia Landfill: Life in Hell
which I read years ago and that tied me forever to this place and what we must do. If you can, bond with me on some donations so that more children from the dump can have the life-changing opportunities that those already moved to the CCH are receiving. I just don't believe that this must go on. We Do have the power to end this suffering and provide opportunity.

*exhale*
SO. Today was officially my last day at work...as the shop is closing down for the season and reopening in May. Now, if my finances were in good standing it would be perfect timing because I'm impatient to really get focused on my artwork. But, my finances are not quite in good standing. :(

Couple that with the little news that our landlord's son is moving back to town with wife and they will be moving into our house. Yes, that means we've got until May to find another place to live.
*sigh*
Here we go again.

But with these worries I come back to the house just now and get the mail...and there is a check from an art sale that I didn't even know about!! 'Prayers (medium)'(pictured here) just sold from the East Hampton gallery!!


No it's not going to take care of all my debt and bills or anything but it's a nice chunk that I need! And of course I read this stuff as a sign....I know it's time to start another hammered nail prayer piece...I've been feeling it..needing to get back to the ritual...and there is just SO much to pray for these days....and now this just reinforces it.:)
Also I know that at least two baby pieces sold at ArtMiami this past weekend...and one baby piece from Margaret Thatcher's. And that was the update before both shows ended...so it's Possible that more sold..I'll have to wait and see.
It's going to be just fine.
I'm going to get this grant application in...., I'm going to get back to making the artwork...and this is going to be an amazing year.
I'm going to go donate the 10% from this check to Habitat for Humanity. SO much rebuilding needs to be done after the tsunami, it's unimaginable, but we can all help. Habitat for Humanity plans up to
25,000 homes for displaced tsunami victims

Bucky’s Self-Disciplines (from bfi.org )

"I decided that Nature might support a man who was doing what Nature wanted to be done and concluded that I would be informed by Nature if I proceeded in the following manner:

Use myself as an experiment to see what, if anything, a healthy, young male human of average size, experience, and capability with an economically dependent wife and new born child, starting without capital or any kind of wealth, cash savings, credit or university degree could effectively do that could not be done by great nations or great private enterprise to lastingly improve the physical protection and support of all human lives.
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