My Dearest Blog,
I’ve been gone for so long. It’s been lifetimes in Google years since last I posted (300,000 Google years, 1 real year, 8 months, and 24 days, to be exact). I know you watched me lurking in the shadows, secretly posting on Facebook, philandering on Twitter, even moving your domain to ImageKind. Suddenly I show up when you thought I’d all but forgotten your virtues.
Perhaps it was an actual lifetime I was absent because I'm not the same person I was back then. I worked so narrowly on being stable; I forgot to move forward. I lost all hope you’d forgive me for abandoning you. I am sorry for disappearing, and I have returned with a commitment to make a real change.
I want to make a living for us through my creative talents. I’m exhausted of letting us down by not living up to my potential. My resistance tortured me to the very edge of surrender, but I refuse to believe my talents are worthless anymore. Somewhere there are people who value and appreciate what I can do and who I am.
I want to connect and collaborate with those people. I will make a place where they can ask questions, offer support, and point me in a direction. The last one is most important for me. I’ll use ImageKind, Deviant Art, and Facebook to update fans, new and old, and invite like-minded creators to work with me. (The jury is out on MySpace at the moment.)
With the help of others, I want to expand my horizons for telling a story be it motion comics, graphic novels, digital art, or tarot cards. There is so much to learn and share. I want to help others reach their goals and live their livelihood. We can be a community of creative crabs lifting each other from the boiling pot instead of pulling each other back in. There is plenty of space out there for all of us.
I know this isn’t an easy path. Not everyone shares my ideals and viewpoints. I take it with a good degree of humility many failures may lie ahead. Yet I won’t sink back into the doubting quicksand that art, craft, and honesty are of no value. I won’t sell mediocre work at premium prices simply because there’s a market for it. I invest myself in my work and set the value with integrity and honesty.
With these new commitments, I’m happy to say, I’m back from the shadows. The time is right to grow in a new direction, to move forward together. Reconstruction begins today. Please forgive me, dearest blog, for neglecting you these past few years. I only hope you missed me as much as I missed you.
Your eccentric creator,
John Glock
