At the closing of the year

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December 10th

I must admit to you that the past month has been one of lack-luster inspiration, and in fact for the first time in nearly 5 years i have not kept our facebook updated as often and am still having the challenge to muster the inspiration for the December issue of MetroEast NEWS.   In fact I have considered the option of ending this outreach project for lack of inspiration, collaboration and funding.

Nonetheless, I find myself firmly in the grasp of winter and nearly halfway thru the month and simply playing catch-up to what usually happens here at the closing of the year.   Last month, Daniel's birthday passed without much fanfare and for the first time since our inception World AIDS Day came and went without much notice.

What I am reminding myself of is the simple blessing that I am here to continue to write to you, and the understanding that others out there may actually expect some of our traditions to go onward.  So humbly I take on that my own inspiration is not ever what it has been about.  Its about you who follow us and of course that which Danny held in his heart as important.    Most of his artwork is in the sun room of the house which I rarely go into anymore, so I'm admitting he's been telling me to move it for a month now and listening is not optional with Daniel.  The framed work will likely be in the living room by weeks end.  And I also decided it was time to upload the artwork releases again to the MySlart Gallery to be visible once again and viewed by other artists around St. Louis. The revolving display has also been updated to our own landing page so we can share with you other artists from our region.

This week or perhaps next I will wrap my brain around our foundation's board meeting which is supposed to happen in December as we review the past year and decide on a piece of artwork to be reproduced in the summer of 2013.  For those of you who look for these releases, as our tradition it will be available in June and given away to our supporters and collectors.   In 2012 we produced 10 prints, and if anyone did not get one or wanted one, we may have one or two left.   Contact Emily Smith for more info:  danielmccreeorg@gmail.com   If we have any left they are located in Belleville.

So I have gotten a bit wordy in this update so I will simply close with one of our long-standing traditions of sharing the video "At the closing of the year"   It always seems to bring Christmas to wherever i am so I hope it can do the same for someone else who is like me... hates the stress and obligations that christmas always seems to bring.   If a drum is all you have.. beat that drum until someone listens.  (At the closing of the year)