Posted on March 3, 2025

Ok, people in Rochester, NY, I know we are going through it with all this snow. Seasonal depression is real!! I have been sick since Thursday, February 13th, and started feeling better on Sunday; that was just the physical part. Mentally I have been fighting depression and feelings of I can’t do this anymore (snow!!). When I finally feel better, I still can’t get out of the house because my car is stuck in the snow. Now I am feeling like I am too old to even get the car out of snow. You see, at 40yrs old I would have just kept shoveling and rocking the car back and forth until I got it out. At 62yrs old I feel like, what good am I. Of course, I don’t want to share any of this with you guys because how can the creator of Artwork For the Soul, healing through art not heal herself! Well, I did have an art project to finish for school and had to complete 4 pieces and I am up to my last piece, so I did manage to work on my art if nothing else. And after talking to my nephew, I realized that I am healing through art! His call was about business, so I needed to get out of my funk to attend the business call and I finally managed to get help to move my car. Something my nephew said got me thinking. He said I was a person that made things happen no matter what and it is ok to ask for help if I can’t do the same things I used to do before (you know when I was younger)!

The whole point is healing is an ongoing process, and we are going to go through feelings all through our life and it’s what we do with those feelings that matter. Yes, I feel like the snow will go on forever, but I know in my heart that’s not true, and I still must take care of business which means I have to get my healing on! So, I completed the task I needed to complete, got away from the television, and laughed when I realized that my last art project piece is a drawing of a little house in the snow and a big bungalow in the sun by the water! Yes, I am going to be ok, and you all are going to be ok too! Let’s just draw our way out of the snow and create our own summer paradise!