Wishing everyone a happy, healthy and productive 2014.
Productivity can be exhausting…
These past few months have been filled with physical challenges for me, including not one, but two knee surgeries (the second to fix an unusual problem with the first), anemia brought on by said knee surgery, and finally, a Christmas celebration in the hospital as I faced gall bladder surgery. Many thanks to the kind doctors and nurses (especially my patient wife) as they helped me through these issues. I’m humbled by the kindness of strangers and blessed by the love of my family and reminded daily to be grateful for these challenges, because I am alive and able to face them.
Today, I am feeling considerably better and definitely looking forward to the new year. Excited for the day I can brave the stairs and enter the art studio again, paintbrush in hand, to imagine life before ready surgery, sterile hospitals and modern medicine. While I will always love history, and wish that I had been around to traverse the mountains with the fur trappers, for now at least, I am glad to live in modern times.With that in mind, I once again, wish you a happy, healthy and productive 2014.
TrappersWildWest 
Warm wishes for a happy and healthy 2014 🙂 Annie
Thanks Annie. Warm wishes right back at you!
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Hope 2014 is happy and healthy for you, Trapper. Best, Anita
Thanks Anita, I appreciate it. Best wishes to you for a terrific and creative new year.
Wishing you a warm Happy New Year Trapper, one that is full of happiness and good health!
peace, Eddie
Thank you Eddie, and I send those same warm wishes right back to you.
Wishing you the best for the year. Looks like you’ve had a rough month leading up to now. Glad you are on the mend.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Glad to have you back Gale!
Thanks, I’m glad to be back.
Oh Geez – sorry to hear you’ve had such a rough time. I wish you a speedy recovery and smooth sailing into a great new year!
Thanks so much Jo Ann, I appreciate it. Here’s to a great new year.
Hope you’ll bounce back with much more vigor. Best wishes to you and your loved ones in this new year. The pages are blank waiting to be filled in, Happy blogging,
Thank you Benny, what a nice sentiment. Best wishes to you and yours, as well.
And from me wishing you the very best of health happiness and prosperity for 2014 to you and your family.
Thank you Rita, right back at you.
Wow, what a year u have had! Hope you have a speedy recovery and a happy and healthy 2014. You definitely deserve it Trapper!
Thanks for the nice comment, Beth. Wishing you and yours a wonderful, healthy new year as well.
Hip-Hip-Hooray – for he’s a golly good fella! I knew you’d pull thru with flying colors!! Here’s a well deserved toast for the forthcoming year of art and friendship for everyone. Good to see you back!
Cheers to you too! Thanks for the nice toast and welcome back. Looking forward to learning more about our valued service men and women and their contributions this year, so keep up your good work.
Whew, you had a rough few months! I hope that you continue on the road to recovery and have a wonderful New Year.
Thank you Sheryl, I’m looking forward to a great year and wish you a wonderful one as well.
Blessings!
Thank you!
Oh yes, wishing a Happy Healthy New Year!
Right back at you, Elena!
I just kick-started my painting routine after a bout with grief, illnesses, and all the chores that piled up during those obstacles. The time away seasoned me, but eventually I felt a little stagnant. It took a few tries to get moving forward again. Try exploring your other interests and also sketching, watching videos of other painters, or reading about the old west. Maybe set up your plein air kit somewhere downstairs. Glad to see you up and about. Thanks for the well-wishes. Happy New Year!
Thank you Lucy. Glad you are back as well, as life does sometimes seem to take precedence over art! Best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful new year.
Healing was taking up my energy inside and out, but Still waters run deep, so I guess it was a time to deepen my heart. I feel whole again, and wish you good progress in your healing too.
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I hope your recovery is going well after all of these health hurdles. I just finished watching a most extraordinary documentary of the work of Edward Curtis, a photographer who worked during the early decades of the 20th century to chronicle and archive for posterity the ancient life and practices of the Native American tribes. If you haven’t seen it, I am confident that you will be moved by it as I am.
The link follows. Let me know hat you think if you get around to watch it.
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/coming_to_light_the_edward_s_curtis_story
All the best to you,
Tom Webber
Thank you. I’ll definitely check it out. Best wishes to you for a great new year.
Take it easy. Surgeries take it out of you! The picture is perfect! Wishing you a speedy recovery and a great New Year! Blessings, Brenda
Thank you, Brenda. Your kind comment is appreciated and best wishes to you!
Best wishes and strong health to you in ’14.
Thank you and to you as well. 🙂
Happy New Year to you as well. Let’s hope we can turn the tide and make 2014 a much improved year over the last.
Thank you, looking forward to it!
Be positive, be full of hope…everything will turn all right…Your passion for art will help…and nice people around us!
(I am also recovering from the shoulder injury…) I know how happy can person make even a small progress…to me being able to write this with my both hands on the keyboard is already a big improvement of my life…
…like yours being able to get to your studio…Be strong.
I wish you a very fast complete recovery … 🙂
Alexa
Thanks Alexa – and you also!
Sorry to hear about your woes – but hopefully well on the way by now?
Much as we might yearn for the simplicity of times past there are certainly benefits to being around now! 🙂
Yes, there really are :).