Comic Book: Retirement – But no, it arrived… (p2) (August 2008)
The continuing saga of moving across country after retirement.
The continuing saga of moving across country after retirement.
One of the hardest parts of retiring was moving across the country with a lifetime of accumulated…. s*uff. I, to this day, still have an issue letting go of things. At some point letting go will be a must… I’m working up to it gradually… very gradually.
I recently came across this ‘comic book’ that I made shortly after I retired. I still have some of these issues more than 10 years later.
My father was most patient with Mike. Mom took Mike’s withdrawal from everything personal. I rode the middle ground: patient to a point, then withdrawing, thinking that something in me failed to reach Mike. I had an element of If-I-Keep-On-Trying-ness about me. I still wish I could have reached my big brother.
I made a small comic book a couple of years before I started my blog. The original mission of my blog was to document my experience as the sibling of my older autistic, low functioning, nonverbal brother. I had a lot of writings, photographs, sketches and thoughts to share, which you can see in my […]
This was one of the sketches I did at my Mom and Dad’s house when I began to draw every day. The vantage point is from another room. I wasn’t quite able to distinguish one form from another at this stage. I think I was concentrating on getting a range of tones, from dark to […]