My Flutterby Illustration in New Patti Digh Book

It’s official…I am a published illustrator! One of my artowrks (Flutterby #1) was chosen to illustrate the poem “Find the Beauty” in best-selling author Patti Digh’s new book, what I wish for you – simple wisdom for a happy life. If I were any better, they would stick me in the gumbo!!!

Find the Beauty

Find the beauty.

It is everywhere and in nearly everything.

It is in truth and in places least expected.

It is right in front of us where we sometimes cannot see.

find the beauty.

It is always worth living for.

~R. L. Delight

 

Find the beauty is so fitting for my life today…the past few years have not been so beautiful and it has been most difficult for me to find beauty and, at times, even hope. I am digging my way slowly out of a rabbit hole I fell into in 2008. Like Alice in her not so merry adventure into wonderland, I have had to work my way over, under around and through all kinds of new and often unpleasant circumstances. And I have come face to face some major truths about myself when I would much rather have looked through the looking glass instead of into it.

But I discovered during this journey that beauty is indeed in truth and in places least expected…and in people you least expected to stand by you and/or for you. Those people have blessed the sad and hard days and, like Alice, I have found a Mad Hatter or two to light my way…not Johnny Depp, but close! ;}}

Often when I am at my lowest something beautiful brightens my life!I would count this a three beautiful things this week!!!

So what would I do if I had 37 days to live:

i would continue to communicate… and live so i can die without regrets!

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