It is always easy to curse a past year and look forward to a new one but I awoke this morning thinking of the good things about 2009 and discovered a lot of them! I am still alive and relatively healthy and that from a guy who has a tendency to burn his candles at both ends always amazes me and puts me in good humor. I retired in 2009! after 47 years of paying into the system I get a little back! I "became" an "artist"! In galleries, selling "stuff", the works! With a little help from my friends I have discovered painting and although, so far, I just do colors and shapes I am having a lot of fun with this new medium! In 2009 I joined ArtWanted and opened my shop to you folks, offered tours of my garden, and bit by bit, much like painting, one stroke at a time, opened myself to you, and some of you to me! That is wonderful, life doesn't get better than that! I have friends all over the world! It is in sharing that this happens and I thank so many of you for this experience. After letting it go for 30 years I rebuilt my greenhouse and shared my wonderful garden abundance with many of you: next year my goal is to do it more and better and send off, all around the world, a lot more dried tomatoes! 2009 and my children, although scattered across the country are doing fine and I have the same wife who after 42 years, still manages to keep my life on a reasonable and even keel. Oh, I welcome 2010 with open arms and I know it too will bring challenges, present obstacles, give us opportunities, tears and joy. Yeah, Happy New Year!
12 Comments
Julie Mayser 04 Feb 2010
I like your portrait! And your positive tendencies and philosophies.... :-)Julia Scorupsky 04 Jan 2010
Happy New Year, Jerry!Nira Dabush 01 Jan 2010
well.. great work on this portrait... Just saw a U-TUBE Of a good bye song.Emily Reed 01 Jan 2010
Yes! Happy New Year!Ai Shan 31 Dec 2009
Great work, Jerry! Happy New Year!Annette Labedzki 31 Dec 2009
Your wife deserves a medal/metal!!!!Nancy Dadisman 31 Dec 2009
Thanks for sharing. I love the photo alterations! : ) Happy New Year to you!Nelly van Nieuwenhuijzen 31 Dec 2009
LOVE THIS, WORK AND WORDS, AND WISHING YOU A GREAT 2010!!!ruth sears 31 Dec 2009
Very nicely put, your words and thoughts on the past year and what it has meant for you.hoping that 2010 brings many more hopeful and positive happenings into your life,and I am glad to know you through your art and kind words and comments,Jerry.Stefani Wehner 31 Dec 2009
wonderful image and you wrote my thoughts, in our age we should enjoy every moment and the new year will bring us new challenges. I wish you and yours all the best.....your girlfriend from far away!!!!! LOLMaria Anna Machado 31 Dec 2009
BEAUTIFUL WORK...BEAUTIFUL WORLDS...Sharon Gonzalez 31 Dec 2009
JERRY, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL, BOTH IMAGE AND WORDS. YOU ARE SO RIGHT THAT 2009 BROUGHT MANY WONDERFUL THINGS. IN YOUR THINKING YOU DISPLAY A LOT OF POSITIVITY ABOUT THINGS AND LIFE; THIS KEEPS YOU HEALTHY AND YOUNG, YOU KNOW. MY MOM WILL BE 96 FEB. 4TH 2010 (MY BIRTHDAY TOO) AND SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A HAPPY POSITIVE PERSON. SHE IS STILL HEALTHY AND HAPPY AND JUST STOPPED DRIVING HER CAR THIS YEAR. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU ARE FOLLOWING IN HER SHOES. YES 2010 WILL BE ANOTHER GREAT YEAR!