Yes, yes, you read that correctly. I need rainbows. In the past, I was pretty desperate for mighty important things like money, higher quality employment, to get an infected molar tooth yanked, and I was even desperate for food in my kitchen at many points. I thank everyone who helped me out of those past misadventures. I am truly indebted to you. I remember who all of you are and what all of you did, and I will make it up to each of you personally as time and resources allow.

I'm entering a much better time in my life. I live in Alaska now. I have a good apartment in a tall, warm building, I have plenty of food, I'll have AMAZING full health benefits in just a few weeks, and most importantly, I have started an excellent new career that will only continue to blossom. I'm an admin for the State of Alaska now. I even have a lovely view from the office window of wild bald eagles soaring past the stately marble columns of the State Capitol building. It's all very surreal. I always knew that when I left Elko, Nevada, it would be to return to city life. I was NOT expecting that to be in ALASKA of all places! Yet, I'm living in one of the few skyscrapers in the state (ok, ok, so it's only 12 stories tall, and that doesn't really qualify it as a skyscraper compared to the towers of New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, but it's still one of the tallest in Alaska... ), working in a very elegant complex of other high rise buildings just a few blocks away (all of which are shorter than the one I live in ), I have a lovely cityscape view from my kitchen window, and I spend more time riding in elevators than I do walking or riding in a car. ...in a place where bald eagles are almost as common as the seagulls... It's ABOUT TIME things started running smoothly! I'm hoping that those years of misery are over!

So, now that all the basic necessities of life--food, clean water, safe shelter, and a solid source of income--are established, and I can finally get back to living life, I've realized I really need rainbows. Rainbows are the promise of better things to come with a new start, the new deal, the covenent. It's very befitting of where I am now, and what I've survived to get here.

I am declaring 2008 The Year of the Rainbow! I'm taking the rainbow back, or reclaiming it, or whatever... From now on, it simply means "the promise of a fresh start". ( Oh, wait a minute, isn't that what it originally meant, and has meant since ancient times? ) Yes, "the new deal". I will devote much of my art to rainbows, or at least bright colors, this year to celebrate this new start. COME JOIN ME!! I want to see your rainbow art, too!

...and yes, there will likely be horses and unicorns in there, too!

Love and Peace and Rainbows Forever,
Silvermare



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