dontfeartheringo wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:50 pm here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

Happy they are becoming comfortable in their skin! Is it a little weird holding onto a poster that depicts a very much gendered little squirrel falling from the sky?

Hell yeah, you bet I remember that kid. Cheers to y'all.

heptagons wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:26 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

Oh how they have grown! They probably won't remember us silly Finns, but tell them and Liza hi from us!

My dad also died last week. Fuck cancer, fuck it truly.

All I have to do is remind them that it was you who brought the Cloudberry Liqueur to our house and they will instantly know.

I'm terribly sorry to hear about your father. Condolences. If you were down South I'd bring a pound cake to your house now.

penningtron wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:30 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:50 pm here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

Happy they are becoming comfortable in their skin! Is it a little weird holding onto a poster that depicts a very much gendered little squirrel falling from the sky?

That poster is EXTREMELY important to Charli. Nothing weird about it at all.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:32 pm

heptagons wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:26 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

Oh how they have grown! They probably won't remember us silly Finns, but tell them and Liza hi from us!

My dad also died last week. Fuck cancer, fuck it truly.

All I have to do is remind them that it was you who brought the Cloudberry Liqueur to our house and they will instantly know.

I'm terribly sorry to hear about your father. Condolences. If you were down South I'd bring a pound cake to your house now.

Thank you! My dad was one of those guys who'd fix anything. He did a full engine repair on Toyota Hiace in our parking lot - twice. He traveled Finland from head to toe in that van, playing gigs in every shit hole, singing and playing saxophone. He played two nights in a row while having a heart attack in rural Lapland.

We worked together briefly and played in bands for ten-fifteen years. His last years were heartbreaking as he had asbestosis which made playing the saxophone a bit hard. Then he got myotosis, which made everything a fucking pain. Meanwhile his kidney cancer renewed, grew on his liver and on his skeleton and finally killed him. He died almost mid sentence, talking with his doctor.

If you ever get a chance to send Charli here, we will take care of them! This offer stands and I'm dead serious.
We've had rotten luck showing Aurora Borealis to our own kids, but apparently they are not hard to see where we live now.

jfv wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:10 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

They're in band!! You have done well.

Such a bad ass. That GAZE!

PASTA wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:02 pm

jfv wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 2:10 pm

dontfeartheringo wrote: here's my kiddo. Defiantly nonbinary. 13 years old. Perfect in every way.

They're in band!! You have done well.

Such a bad ass. That GAZE!

Hear hear

I can now read German at a decent level *muscle-emoji*

Congrats, Kollege. That's awesome.

Finished writing my second novel this week. Have a lot of good feelings about it.

I would like to extend sincere gratitude to each and every individual who offered me direct words and gestures of encouragement during the drawn-out phase of its creation (October 25, 2021 to March 4, 2024), no matter how small. This would extend to some of the amiable chit-chat/banter on this forum. Also, thanks to the many musicians whose stellar music made this process so much easier to bear (there are too many to mention, but rest assured, I'm still rooting for you).

Haters: Suck a dick. When your second novels come out, let us compare notes. You think it's easy, give it a shot sometime.

Anyway . . . Feels like I need a long vacation now. Will settle for family members not driving me nuts, being somewhat accommodating to my efforts and all of the logistics involved. It has been like pulling teeth at times trying to get everyone on the same page (no pun intended). Wouldn't recommend it.

Still making art in one’s mid-forties, amid the current cultural climate, does feel like swimming against the tide. But on a good day, it feels worth it.