I assure you friend, this is better than I could do with both hands.

Even with the left hand, your art shows great beauty and talent.

Someday, I shall have enough cash in one place to pay you to illustrate the book we have spoken of in the past.

I wish you well, please do take care of yourself, we all worry about you so. (The friends that appreciate your art.) Take care of that hand- once you "break it," it never, never will recover 100%. I know that personally.

Patientce and daily diligence are the keys to everything. Be that recovering from injury or success.

I don't know if you struggle with what I describe below, but I have.

Now that I am self employed, I find it so very easy to just not work when I don't feel like it.

The secret then, is to always say, "This is my job. I owe my employer X hours a day and when I don't show, my employer loses that time- never to get it back." But when we work for ourselves, we simply don't see it as both our job and our "boss."

Treat yourself like you have business hours. "From X to Y I have to be at work." Self employed means you can set those hours. But just like any job, you can't expect to put in a 20 hour days because you were out three days- and remain healthy.

I deeply struggled with that, in every business save this last. Now, I demand of myself to put in a reasonable amount of time each day, just as if I had set hours.

I find that most artist struggle even more with this issue, because creativity does not always work from 8 to 5.

Not saying that is your issue, just mentioning what my experience has been.

But being sick, please take the time to get well.

The fact that you are so compelled to draw that you will draw with your off hand, nodes very well for you, Lady Kima.

Yeeeah, the scary part is even when I know I need to slow down and give myself a break, looming bills, and other various financial strains exist. Around this town I can't even get a part time job without them taking full advantage of my good work ethic. I end up running out of time and energy for art at the same time, so if I gotta be broke either way I would rather be doing what I enjoy and working as my own boss.

I also have a few other physical issues lately that haven't been helping at all.

Whatever I do, I'll make sure it is efficient, but not going to destroy my resources or health.

I know that in this world, few can give you anything.

in common English and loose paraphrase, Hamlet states it perfectly.

"Who would suffer the pains of this life? Why would one bear the pretentious leaders who think themselves so better than us?"

"It is only the fear of the undiscovered country that keeps us in these bonds. It is the potential ills we do not know that keep us in these bonds. And how easy it would be to slip the surly bonds of life."

"To be or not to be- aye, there is the rub."

But, I know this life can be more than you know now.

It is difficult, it is a fight, a burden.

But we do not know the pattern and materials of our life. There are yet to be threads of beauty and joy of your life.

There are yet to be patterns of red lusts, threads of beauty and passion in your life. And I can tell you that you should hold out, struggle still. Your time to slip the bonds of surly life has not yet come.

There are yet so many things you must know. Things of beauty, of desire and pleasures that you must know.

Be patient, the end comes soon enough. You are a woman of such beauty, love and talent. Bear this time of pain, angst and fear with courage and fortitude. Difficult, I know, easy to say, true, but I know you can do this. Drink the bitter dregs, so that new and delicious wine can be poured in your cup. This won't last forever.