writing | Valentina Expressions

I have been absent

I am sitting in front of this box, the computer monitor, after nine months of being absent and it feels like a stranger is looking at me. Nine months ago, my life took a turn I didn’t like, it was as if a heavy beam of a construction home hit me on the head really hard and knocked me unconscious, thus I decided to disappear for a while for my own sanity.
On another note, it’s good to stay away from electromagnetism anyway and detox for a while.

Meanwhile, I was as active as ever with design work, TV shows, travelling, painting walls in my home and having a life outside the social platforms. I remember when the internet didn’t exist and friends knocked on my door without any appointment or picked up the telephone to talk at all hours of day and night without worrying about what virtual friends on Facebook were doing every second of their lives.

I returned to be closer to the world of art, the only thing that makes my soul sing. I visited the exhibitions shown in all the museums in my area and I even started to paint again, but this time I left out all the rules I had learned in art classes, I want to have a very loose hand to express myself freely and do just what I like.

I paint geometric and abstract nature with any medium except oil. Fabric is one material I feel confident to paint with as well. Basically, I create images using fabrics, but I don’t make quilts.

I have picked up the habit of making handbags. Many people sit in front of the TV and after a while, either fall asleep, eat mindlessly, or zap the remote control with an infinite boredom. If I sit in front of the TV my hands must be constantly doing something, sending a signal to my brain that I am creating. By doing this, ideas flow as a river to do more extravagant handbags, I want to make them all, but time seems to slip away on its own. I sell them on Etsy and privately. https://www.etsy.com/shop/ValentinaExpressions

The TV station, KMVT15, where I had produced a lot of shows before the psycho pandemic, finally lifted all the bans applied for three years and I returned to produce my shows under the same label: Valentina Design Universe. In January, my guest was a money coach who talked about money and harmony.

In February my guests, two chiropractor doctors, talked about how to live a life without medications.

The March show will be about Charcuterie and the small pleasures of life.

Saturn governs this year. It is considered a very hard planet due to the strong energy that it emanates.
The 2024 Chinese Lunar Year is about the dragon, another very strong symbol of power and commotion.
I hope both together will not create a lot of damage to humanity, already afflicted with wars, psycho pandemics, economic crises, government idiots, geo-engineered food and stupid believers hung up on virtual reality.

It’s good to be back in the blogosphere. Ciao.
Valentina

Valentina Cirasola is an interior-fashion consultant, author of 6 published books, a storyteller, and a blogger of many years. Her books are non-fictional practical ideas to apply in the home, fashion, cooking and travel.
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