So it's been 2 months now since dad's passed.

And while there are days that are still quite hard, it's gotten to be less surreal. Though I am happy our last moments the week prior were happy ones, having a good Zoom call where my fiance and I were painting with mom, my sister, and he was hanging around chatting with us, helping me with a roof issue (as he was an extremely knowledgeable man in a great many things). I was also quite thrilled with just how much he loved my fiance It was still too soon, man I wish it could have been the same situation, 30 years from now. Fortunately it was something that occurred peacefully, in his sleep.

Oh man, the things I could tell you about him- But let me sum it up with a handful things. As I grew up, one of the biggest things he told me, taught me, expected of me was "be the example, do not follow it", and later in life, he expressed to me that his biggest goal as a father was to raise me in such a way that I could be a better man than him. And if you'd known him, you'd that is quite the charge to give! Finally, he was pretty well my biggest supporter in the goals that I set out for. He always knew I could succeed, no matter how slim the odds, how difficult the challenge, so long as I put in the work to do so, and it was good to have such a strong pillar of support in my corner, it definitely made the many hardship I've endured over the years much more bearable.

And I would be remiss in not talking about Alora, who rushed home from where she currently lives two hours north to be with me, and then put her own life on pause for a moment to follow me to Texas and support me and help me through this trial, and to help make sure I got all the arrangements made, funeral planned and conducted, affairs settled, and all that is entailed with that. She's been quite wonderful through this process, and I'm exceedingly grateful for this.

And I am incredibly grateful to the awesome  Nomax for accepting this commission, and not just capturing the concept of the moment itself so well, but indeed also capturing the environment and appearance of my home just so well, as the room this happened in, my kitchen, is staggeringly like my actual kitchen!

V/R,
Cap Mag