Landis Thomas

Hello! My name is Landis thomas and I’ve just discovered I’m an artist! I’m 38 a mother to 5 and a grama to one little big girl ! Thank you to anyone who has supported me in any way! I still break out in sobs (totally normal though) because I get overtaken with gratitude. When we first arrived in South Carolina and I was told I wouldn’t be able to do the work that I had loved, the work I had thought was my calling.... I felt something had been taken away from me. I felt defeated. Again. By life. It took me until I was 30 to get my LPN because I started motherhood at 14 years old. Really before that. Taking care of my dad.... also because I made some really bad decisions and because being an adult from 8 up it feels like, sometimes clouds a kids judgment ... I mean really. I always looked at it like it was all happening TO me. I was an observer in my own life. I’d made myself an observer in my owl life because it was what I had to do to survive. ... but I never really figured this out. Till everything got “taken” from me. And everything kept getting “taken “ didn’t it ? Why wouldn’t it ? I’ll tell you why. Because in order to get on the correct path of life. For me. I needed much training. Would I be able to help the saddest little girl in the whole wide world who has felt the terror, and seen the evil if I hadn’t had this training ? Would I understand? Would I REALLY understand what’s it’s like to be hungry and sad if I hadn’t had my dark nights of the soul ? I don’t know. I don’t think so. I’m grateful for it all. The sickening and the black. For the dance lessons as a kid that ended abruptly and too soon, the one time I was an EMT in New Mexico and I thought I’d live there forever! The anguish when I realized I wouldn’t. It’s all for a purpose and I’m so grateful for it all. I’m grateful for this art most of all! It’s not done anything for me. I’ve done it for myself. What comes from me is inside me and I get to let it out. And the funny thing is its healing as well cause you gotta go deeeeeep into THAT well. I’m really not sure where this art will take me and that’s the beauty of it see! Time is a ticking and there are things to be created !!!! I hope everyone reading this will create something beautiful today !