I sit in my cubicle and I want to draw...

[Nay]

6. I just retired early from my cubicle job -- it was soul-sucking, too. For the past 20 years I have

thought I wanted to draw, paint, etc. when I got home from work, but I never had the energy. If I did try to create something, I'd find myself working on it until 2 a.m., and become enraged because I simply had to go to bed in order to get up the next morning. It got so it was easier to just not do art.

Now that I have been retired for 2 months and various household projects are getting done (like painting the living room), I can see some light at the end of this long, tired tunnel. I collected mushrooms on a camping trip and had great fun drawing them all. I can tell my technique is very rusty, but I will keep doing it just for enjoyment.