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My uncle passed away a couple of weeks ago, and I’m going to a family service in the Old Country next week. For that and other reasons, the past month’s really concentrated my mind on mortality and how I want to spend the rest of my life, creatively or otherwise. I finally started writing my will last week (it’s been a resolution since I turned fifty but I haven’t been sure until now how to approach it) and the biggest sticking point for me thus far has been what to do with my artwork. I’d obviously like some of it to survive me, maybe well into (maybe even remote?) posterity, and mentally working through this has highlighted a few recent preoccupations that haven’t quite risen to frustrations yet.

This year in general’s been kind of a psychic write-off for a number of reasons, and that’s before getting into anything political. I’ve had to reconfigure so many plans, schedules, and ambitions that, at this point, I’ll just be happy with a decent body of work from the past several months. That probably ought to be a lesson to me, not least as it looks like I might well end up with one. Nevertheless, I’ve been in mental planning mode so much for the past several weeks that I’m actually thinking about taking a break therefrom this month and next, largely to get my freehand and doodling instincts back (I was gonna start next week after Labor Day, but… see above). This year’s had its moments, to be sure, but I really want the rest of it, to say nothing of 2027, to go better.

So… it’s been weird up in here. Not bad weird, necessarily, but this is uncharted territory for me (in a practical rather than theoretical sense, anyway) and it’ll likely have an impact. The header this week is a file of my potential bequests hanging on my wall (reorganized as of this evening to accommodate another storage unit run tomorrow).

How’s your work going?