Digging for more art supplies, I found another sketchbook. It's a little 5" x 7" book that I used for thumbnails (some of them were layout and logo designs) and small quick sketches. Sometimes it's fun trying to figure out when and why I had done certain sketches. This thumbnail was the basis for the Darth Maul painting I had done in '99 (check it out in my portfolio).

As he wandered into the trees, Jacob was welcomed by the local night life.

Cleaning up my studio area, I found a few forgotten items from the past. It vexes me when I don't remember drawing or why I drew certain things (the pencil). But I do remember drawing the baby. That was me as an infant. I used it in the first iteration of my website. And the gesture drawings were from a day in 2002, when I was watching my son play. He was about 3 back then and I was challenging myself with the proportions of a toddler. What fun it was to just sit, observe and sketch. And how challenging it was to draw my kid as he was moving around at light speed!

Sometimes strength doesn't come in the form of muscles. Many times it can come to us in the form of friendship and endurance. When we feel defeated or weak, it may take the love of our family and friends to help make us strong.

There are moments in our childhood that we will never forget: Christmas morning, your first bike, an event at school. But for this child, it's looking at the full moon with his best friend. It's when we are adults, that we see the little things that remind us and even magnify those moments in time. As an adult, a full moon will hold so much meaning for him.