2020 is the year I published my first coloring book, did so under what
I thought were the worst possible conditions already then watched
things get worse than was imaginable.
2020 is the year by nothing short of a series of miracles I barely avoided
having my artwork become a casualty of COVID, when it so easily could have.
2020 is the year I had more sales than I did for the all of 2018 and
2019, and most of 2017 combined.
2020 is the year where on a more personal note I finally listened to some
friends enough to let them push me (without them meaning to) into doing a
craft project I had been putting off for years, and I'm glad I let them.
And that's just with my artwork, in other parts of my life 2020 is also
the year one of my friends got married, and the year I watched another
friend have some smaller dreams come true. 2020 is the year I got some
reprieves in life I didn't expect, but don't consider appropriate to
list here.
2020 is the year I watched the world rally because we didn't realize
how long COVID was going to be an issue.
So for everyone out there who is ready for 2020 to be over, I would
like to be honest:
2020 has also been perhaps the hardest year of my life, and it's been
absolute torture at times in ways I don't even want to describe here.
It's been the year I got told to kill myself by a lot of people because they
literally didn't understand or care to understand that was what they were
asking me to do.
2020 is the year I have had to ask myself can I even recognize the legitimacy
of my government not for that I watch happen in the distance, but instead
because of ways I have been wronged personally along with numerous others.
2020 is the year where I found myself wondering why someone would bother
lying to me about the fact they were rejecting me, when just telling me
the truth would probably have been easier all the way around.
2020 is the year I wondered if the smoke from the nearby forest fires was
going to kill me the next time I slept until it rained, and 2020 is the
year I was grateful for rains I never thought I would be thrilled to see.
2020 is a year I watched rip the economy a new one so hard even people who
don't have to worry about economic conditions that much ended up being hit
hard in ways that normally just don't happen by economic mess, while setting
up to force a lot of things about home business's and working from home to
be brought to a long over due front of peoples considerations.
So 2020 has been without a doubt a long, hard crazy, amazing, best of times,
worst of times, roller-coaster of a year, and while everyone else is desperately
looking forward to 2021, I'm looking forward to the rest of 2020. 2020 is a year
of amazing overtures for change and transformation that nobody on earth could
have seen coming.
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