8: Do Not Be Afraid

In January 2020, I left behind full-time art to begin nine months of Americorps service with Virginia State Parks. It was everything missing from my art career–outside every day, working hard with people on physical projects, and learning NEW skills (prescribed burning, trail building, invasives management, chainsaws, etc). I was in a new environment and completely out of my element, and I absolutely loved it.
Then March happened.
I had maintained a few clients while doing Americorps, but almost all of them dissipated when the pandemic hit. Our travel between parks was shut down, but as the nature of our work was outdoors and spread out, we were able to continue without interruption–a blessing I know was not common for pandemic-impacted jobs. Suddenly everyone BUT me was working at home, alone, indoors all the time. I got to keep working outside, wandering through the woods in search of autumn olive, in hollering distance from my coworkers. I thought to myself how lucky I had been. I thought also about how unlucky others had been.
The end of the year brought little respite, though I really, really enjoyed my time with Virginia State Parks and finished my Americorps service successfully. I didn’t really want to do a cutesy bird Christmas card–it seemed tone-deaf and trite. I almost decided not to do one at all, especially since I was still not enjoying drawing.
And I didn’t intend for this to be a Christmas card. I was doodling while thinking about Advent, and the woodcut art on the church bulletins of my childhood, and fear of the future, and Biblical angels, and, as usual, birds. It wasn’t until I was done that I thought about sharing it. It was the first thing in about a year that came easily–almost like it drew itself.
I’ll end with what I wrote when I originally posted it to Patreon: “This is a… weird holiday card. 2020 was a weird year. I am uncertain about what is to come. But there are many stories in human history, across our millions of years years as a species, about the unknown–and we always manage to meet it. And sometimes it is unexpectedly good.”

#hope #advent #future #merrychristmas #happyholidays #biblicalangel
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scinewscom:

Earth’s Population Could Reach 12.3 Billion by 2100, Scientists Say

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/science-earths-population-12-3-billion-02157.html

boston:

THE BIG PICTURE

World Population: Where it’s thick and where it’s thin

-The growing population of the world, now estimated to be over 7 billion, marks a global milestone and presents obvious challenges for the planet. (41 photos total)

complex-systems-science:

Over-populated or under-developed? The real story of population growth

The world population looks set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, but what’s behind the big numbers? We look at the complex demographic shifts in play Global population hit 7.3 billion midway through 2015, an increase of 2 billion since 1990.

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Aameen,

#allah #Allah #muhammadﷺ #islam #makkah #saudiarabia #love #cinta #allahuakbar #liker #muslimah #muslim #fast #future #past #forgiveme #forgive
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Bimbos are here and they are here to stay
Natural is boring and if girls want attention in the future there going to have to become dumb slutty and looking good , natural girls will simply not be able to compete with these attention sucking black holes our society has created
There is no turning back now , either stay ahead or get left behind ladies  

Dear Sissies, how are all of you? Just want to let you all know that I’m working with www.gobadlands.io to create a new home for our community. It will work just like Tumblr but it will be completely NSFW friendly. Please check it out and let’s rebuild the Sissy community over there. Thanks :).

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I really do … #love #want #need #lust #writing #writers #poemoftheday #poetry #poem #poetic #poemgasm #create #creation #girlwriter #selflove #thoughts #thoughtoftheday #wordsthatmatter #direction #poeticjustice #poeticsoul #norhymescheme #norhymesintended #lovers #future #potential #wondering #SLean I really wonder

Dear #Future #Husband I love my Jagiyah

kushkomikss:

Excerpt from Tommi Musturi’s mini kuš! Snake in the Nose.

Tommi Musturi’s Futureis one of the best one-man anthologies ever. Check it out. I got mine from Domino Books. 

super trapper

don’t hesitate to have big dreams for the world - but remember: you don’t have to save the world on your own!

There #future #past + yesterday #timeshifting (at Victoria, British Columbia)
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New fully animated story for Mould Map 7 by Jonathan Djob Nkondo up at mouldmap.com now A series of loops that can be viewed singly but create a totally mesmerising and space-time folding sensation when seen on a widescreen / desktop browser. With perfect accompanying audio by COSMIQ • This one is heavy so best viewed on WiFi and allow time for it to load fully • This will be the final story for this year, we’ll return with 25 further experimental sequential digital commissions in 2019!!!

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