2021: New Year, New Me
2020 was a garbage year for me.... Year started off with my car getting stolen, further exacerbated by shutdowns by Covid-19, lock downs, criminal riots, and government incompetency. Ultimately these outside stressors lead me down a path of further negativity, abandonment, and malaise that ultimately lead me to giving up photography for over 6 months. As I write this after my fifth Old Fashioned I still wonder if 2021 will be even a slightly positive year for me.... 2021 feels like I'm heading into possibly the worst year of my life, (and that's saying a lot as I was hanging around with Death on my shoulder in 2011.) Jobs are scarce due to shutdowns and "covid-19 restrictions." My only options are live in freedom with uncertainty in Florida, or live under the boot of authoritarianism in Colorado and Michigan, and ultimately it feels like I'm gonna starve to death. So ultimately I decided to fight my hardest I know how to, creating photography and b