Hello everyone!


I hope you are all doing fine.

It is been around a year since I haven't been properly active in DA and plenty of things have happened in the while. I got a lot of lovely messages and kind inquiries from many of you about what was I doing. Well, given your kindness, I'm going to give you a general answer that might not be unfamiliar to the ones following my twitter (be aware: potential OVERSHARING )


-The first thing, and very time consuming, is that all the members of my family but me have had important surgeries in this while. We are still in the recovery period of two of them (and praying for them to work).
-Also, someone beloved died while I was away in a trip.
-I have been using a lot of my intellectual resources in publishing articles in different places in both, English and Spanish.
-I am working *hard* in my PhD research (I think I found the research line now!).
-I found myself involved, by accident, in two really high-quality academic events in Rome.
-I have spent a lot of time travelling (and I get really anxious about the packing and the luggage…).
-Due to the reformation in education system of my country, the University in which I teach have had to reduce the topics of humanities and, this year, I don't have a teaching group (which is not that bad as it leaves me with plenty of time to do my research)… But my second job is in expansion and I need to do a lot of complementary research for it.
-I found the perfect toy store.
-I have been admitted in the Master I wanted to do in Edinburgh (so I will be moving there by the end of the summer).
-I fell in love for the first time. He came from a *very* messed up and highly dysfunctional family, but I decided he was worth the risk and the effort. Looking at it now, I'm very happy with myself there as I never knew I could work so hard for someone, allow myself to be so vulnerable and move my heart in such a way for someone else's shake. It was nothing like a teenage infatuation, but a mature and deliverate love. But, by surprise and in a very dirty way, he left me, taking the first step into the path of broken things his family has been following (I mean it, I have been congratulated for the break up by some of his acquaintances that I never talked to!). Such a sudden change of heart left me very worried about him... And when I asked for a last word and a chance to express my feelings and thoughts about it I only got silence and mockery of my pain and anger. So go figure.  
(And no, I'm not casual about relationships at all, hence it has taken me 27 years to fall in love for the first time)
-We are reforming the family house so we have needed to move out of it and deal with 20 years of memories stored there...
-And more things that are less specific and more troublesome to list.


So I'm sorry I haven't show up round here much, all my creativity has been turned upon the things going on around me… And upon filling my heart with beauty, goodness and nobility in the process.
I haven't stopped drawing though. It is just that DA is very time consuming and it feels a waste to put things here if I don't take the chance to interact with you all! (that's the best part after all)
But I will be updating things from time to time.


Thank you so much for caring and noticing I was absent .



NOW!
Anyone from Edinburgh or its surroundings among my watchers?




God bless,

Leticia