Hi Everyone, @Pixie Elpis @Alicia Voyer @Jaye Brunner @Kathryn Dowell Checking in with you. My goal is shifting my countenance and energy levels to build our community with helpful support and practical information as well as creating art together. I am packing and filling a Uhaul trailer slowly but surely. I extended the days through Wednesday since I am doing this with me-myself & I. It is the first time not having anyone to help. I got a neighbor to load the couch and recliner. Just sharing my process. I feel a significant amount of grief with persistence and hope. I never thought I would be alone with my adult children being distant and unhelpful. I am moving to Houston closer to my job because I really don’t want to die falling asleep driving and possibly hurting someone else. However, I am continuing to learn and grow with Patti’s community, Christians over 50. I purchased her Success Roadmap to get clarity on creating this community. I know most of you know that I started this community but experienced road block in my own creativity. That is why we are off to a slow start. Therefore I am creating content as I work through this resistance and the feeling of heavy grief. Creating Intuitive Art brings this about so I shifted the group from Creating Art As Prayer to Graceful Grief Intuitive Art. I have accepted my place in life as it is in life right now. No striving, just following my heart and following the next steps as they show themselves to me. This is a company that is creating awesome and safe housing, For Me, this time around. It is a different feeling to live among the precious homeless, and retired folks on the poverty line. But homeless for me has been knocking on my front door. The Lord led me to apply for housing as I can’t pay my current rent anymore and I didn’t qualify for 3 times the rent to get a different apartment. any-longer. They are all raising rent from $70.00 to $135.00 a month. I moved around avoiding this but, it is caught up to me right now.

Living a higher quality of life has become a life saving measure. I must make a change not inly to be present and creating in this community but to “stay alive” while driving through Houston traffic to get to work. The Drive: 45 minutes to 1.10 hr each way- Yesterday/I pulled over for a 10 minute cat nap on the way to work due to being so sleepy. Falling asleep has become a critical condition so I am looking for a home close to work. The red apartments, they charge $167.00 for application fee. Paid even though they didn’t tell me I didn’t qualify from the beginning. I am priced out from all the 1bdrm apartments that are safe in Houston and all over our area. Unqualified. The red building was my potential home. Base rent around here is $1260. For tiny 1 bdrm plus fees adds up to about $1360 under 7 hundred sqft. The gray building: 55+ Community I am over qualified for the 1 bdrm. However, under qualified for a 2 bedroom. Humbling and surrendering to the Lord’s care for me right now. Praying for an open door. Experiencing being lower middle class priced out of a home. I am there. It’s at my front door. However, the owner of this beautiful gray building helped me qualify for the two bedroom with the help of a friend❣️ Thank you 🙏 to friends and The Lord’s Grace. I am waiting on verification to go through and I will let you all know how it turns out. This community is my heart and I am working on my quality of life to be able to be present and active with you all and create the information that helps us all. My job is a learning process. And The Lord is squeezing me for that precious oil to flow soon. Blessings, Please pray for me to het this home and get moved in as soon as is possible❣️

Couldn’t see well for over a year and half❣️ Praise God for my job and tax refund 👏