Around a year ago, I started posting some of my scribbles about my life and my family under the Instagram tag: #40yearsgrateful. Among all of my sketches, (close to 70 of them) there is a picture of a couple at the beach in Mexico. From the comments you can deduce that the woman is celebrating her 40th birthday in Mexico with her partner, and apparently she has two little boys (like me!) I wonder if she has noticed that this picture of them is surrounded by my drawings. I wonder if she has similar moments like the ones I sketch, and if she can relate to any of them. Each one of these #40yearsgrateful sketches has made me smile, or laugh, or feel gratitude for my life, (even the painful ones). They capture something that I believe is true and important and funny. I love my weird sense of humor, and I love my kids and how challenging they are, and how difficult parenting is. I love all of it. This is what makes me want to illustrate. This is what I love to do. If I can capture moments like this, and share them with you and with the world, I will be doing my life’s greatest work. Cheers to #40yearsgrateful, and cheers to being grateful that I have made it to my forties, and that my fortieth year is almost over. And cheers to @katrinamoline. I hope that you are surviving 2020 just fine.
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