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There are days that need to be taken one at a time, without the presence of documentation on such platforms as a blog or social media. Life is to be lived fully no matter what kind of emotions and circumstances come up. And there are simply days the need to be taken on surface value without interference.

There are a lot of days when things don’t really go your way and you’re not sure what’s going on. Life has a tendency to shove things in your path that you were not expecting and tell you to deal with it. That’s been the last couple of weeks.

Roses remember things, or more realistically, they remind you of things you remember. They have the power to transport one back to a time, a time from your history, from your own unique story. Roses and many other flowers, have the beautiful blessing and terrible curse of memory.

There are times when life can look a little bit bleak. It has certainly look quite bleak in the last few months as we’ve faced unexpected circumstances and unbelievably high tension. When such times find us in life, it can be really hard to see any light or the hope. However, when life gets dark, we must find our own candles.

Life is filled with a series of cliffs we have to face. Everyone will face different cliffs, sometimes multiple cliffs, it is a part of life we must all learn to live with. When we are on one of these said cliffs and are looking out over the beauty that is blow us, we can be filled with an incredible amount of fear. The valley is thousands of feet below and there’s nothing to stop us from falling.

The definition of ordinary is “with no special or distinctive features; normal.” I believe all artists at some point in time have a fear that both themselves and their art is “ordinary.” I too have had these nagging doubts in the back of my mind as I scroll through Instagram and see art that appears to be so extraordinary.

Rewatching old movies is a really wonderful thing to do, especially during quarantine when there isn’t much else to do. It’s especially wonderful if these old movies are from your childhood and you have not seen them in forever. Add in a bonus if you’re watching them with a good friend.