Happy New Year, Little Birds <3

Hello, little birds!  I hope you've all been having wonderful winter seasons so far, wherever you are and whatever you like to do in these months. 

As I write this, there is just over an hour left of the year 2018 A.D.  It has been... a challenging one.  For me, and I imagine for many of you as well.  Things just seem to be getting tougher, don't they?  But as difficult as things have sometimes been, there's also a great deal to wonder at and be thankful for.

I won't belabor the point: everyone, thank you so, so much for another year.  Being a neurotic artist-type is trying at the best of times.  Fold mental illness and physical recovery into that and things can seem legitimately insurmountable.  But they aren't, as I've learned, and it's all of you who remind me of that the most.  My job is, without exaggeration, my dream come true.  Sometimes as I'm sitting in my writing room with a notebook open, candles and incense burning, writing stories about leeches that speak in birdsong or whatever the fuck, I have to stop and sit up straight as it hits me that "wow, this is my job, people are paying my rent and buying my groceries so that I can do this."  You have all been so astonishingly kind to me.  You support me when things are bad, you share your feelings and memories with me when I make something that stirs you, you are endlessly patient with my ever-failing personal deadlines (do all artists do that?  someone please tell me I'm not the only one who continues to do that).  I'm sincerely convinced I'm the luckiest creator in the world, and there really isn't a day that goes by that I don't marvel at my good fortune.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's been a rocky one, but here at the tail end I've just started to find my footing again.  I have plans, little birds, as ever I do.  Worlds within me.  I hope 2019 will allow me to show some of them to you.  Thank you for being with me through all of this, and here's looking forward to more time with you all.

Keep warm, little birds.  Thank you for everything.  Mama Crow loves you.

Happy new year

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