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Apology to those waiting for art.
12 years ago
Sorry it's been really slow lately. My business is booming, and I've been getting a lot of work, so I've barely been able to find time to work on the art. However, I won't be working on art for the next week or so as my grandmother just got transferred to a hospice yesterday afternoon, and I'm just not in the mental state to be doing anything at the moment. I'm getting live updates on her condition and I'll be leaving the state for a couple days when she passes.
It's a really difficult time because my grandmother loved me the most out of everyone in either side of my family. In '92, she left a life of luxury in Hong Kong, leaving her 13 restaurants (7 were among the top 20) to her eldest (and useless) son, who sold all of them and kept the money for himself. She traded that to be staying in my parents' guest room for a simple life of daily knitting and looking after me. She'd cook for me whenever I was hungry, and would do her best to make food/drink that I liked if my parents wouldn't buy it for me or was just too expensive to buy. Only person I know in the world who did their best to replicate Gatorade in their kitchen and even succeeded. She always comforted me when I was depressed and was a heck of a lot more worried about my health than my parents were. She was also the only person from any generations before mine that wasn't racist and accepted my choice to date and court white girls. She supported me in everything that I chose to do and encouraged me as I went along, which is why I got into art and used to be so much better at it back in high school and my first year of college. On top of all that, we never had to worry about her going anywhere to do anything. She had such a heart of gold even when she lived in Hong Kong that 1/2 of Chicago's Chinatown knew her and gave her transportation, money, etc. because she was the reason they were able to make it to America to start new lives.
Just, in short, she's the greatest old lady out there, and now she's being taken away from this world. I hope you guys will understand, and just know that I'll continue as soon as this whole ordeal is over.
It's a really difficult time because my grandmother loved me the most out of everyone in either side of my family. In '92, she left a life of luxury in Hong Kong, leaving her 13 restaurants (7 were among the top 20) to her eldest (and useless) son, who sold all of them and kept the money for himself. She traded that to be staying in my parents' guest room for a simple life of daily knitting and looking after me. She'd cook for me whenever I was hungry, and would do her best to make food/drink that I liked if my parents wouldn't buy it for me or was just too expensive to buy. Only person I know in the world who did their best to replicate Gatorade in their kitchen and even succeeded. She always comforted me when I was depressed and was a heck of a lot more worried about my health than my parents were. She was also the only person from any generations before mine that wasn't racist and accepted my choice to date and court white girls. She supported me in everything that I chose to do and encouraged me as I went along, which is why I got into art and used to be so much better at it back in high school and my first year of college. On top of all that, we never had to worry about her going anywhere to do anything. She had such a heart of gold even when she lived in Hong Kong that 1/2 of Chicago's Chinatown knew her and gave her transportation, money, etc. because she was the reason they were able to make it to America to start new lives.
Just, in short, she's the greatest old lady out there, and now she's being taken away from this world. I hope you guys will understand, and just know that I'll continue as soon as this whole ordeal is over.
Milan-Luciano
~milan-luciano
*hug* I understand your plight, friend. I feel deeply sorry that such a wonderful woman is being taken away from the world.
