Elizabeth A
Bio
26 years old. Self taught artist. Graduating for MCC with Associates in Fine Arts August 2019. Website for my artwork: http://lizangelo.net/
Instagram: okayy.lizz
Stories (9/0)
A Sweet Discovery
The Duncan’s lived in a large old home. The Duncan’s had an incredibly beautiful and intelligent daughter named Sadie. This eleven-year-old girl was wise beyond her years. She was a quite simple girl, was well spoken and mostly kept to herself. Her parents on the other hand, don’t realize what a special girl they have at hand. Unfortunately, the Duncan’s were not best fit best to raise a child. As they have some internal conflict and unresolved issues of their own. Their self-sabotaging behavior left an impact on Sadie. She realized at an early age that not all parents are superheroes. They can be mean, uncaring and forgetful. Sadie often indulged herself in reading all sorts of books. Though she knew she doesn’t have the best parents, she found comfort and reading in the good ones in her books. Since she was often alone in her room, she often made up a pretend family of her own. Her play family loved her and adored her. They would read books with. Her play mother would wake her up with a kiss each morning and take a golden handle brush and gently brush her long golden hair. Her play father was a successful writer and let Sadie read the manuscript of all his books before they were published. It was nice to dream, wasn’t it? Sadie’s real parents were immersed with garbage on television. One time Sadie swore she saw a flower drop down one time her mother walked outside. It was all she knew. Despite all this, Sadie remained a good person and was nothing like them. There was one family member that Sadie did admire. Her Aunt, Mr. Duncan’s sister Rosie. Rosie used to make homemade jam and honey and sell it and eventually became successful. She opened her own shop called ‘Naturally Sweet’. Mr. Duncan on the other hand wasn’t so happy about her success. He was very jealous. He was so driven by money that he would do anything to get it. One day he even went to lengths to stealing a few jars of her honey and trying to make profit from it. He had no choice since he couldn’t find out what the secret ingredient in her jam was that made it so delicious. Rosie eventually found out about it and became upset by her own brethren’s actions. Since Mr. Duncan was living with Rosie at the time because he couldn’t hold down a job, she sent him out of the house. She realized she let him lie around the couch and do nothing for too long while he claimed to be looking for a job. Him going behind her back was the last straw. Enraged and still jealous of her success, Mr. Duncan had planned a horrible thing. He hired a couple of men to destroy Rosie’s store. He promised to pay themselves by taking the money from her register. It was in the newspaper about her store being destroyed. Rosie was grief stricken and had her suspicions on who could have done so. Rosie tried to confront her brother because she knew it had to be him. He did nothing but gaslight her and call her a bad sister for saying it was him. They got into a big argument. Rosie was still upset about the store and for what she knew her brother did but didn’t admit. One day, she just packed her bags from her home to start a new life and disappeared. A day later, the men that Mr. Duncan had hired to destroy the store said when they looked in the cash register, they didn’t find a cent. Mr. Duncan lied and said he would pay them back in no time and like some fools they believed him. By that time, Mr. Duncan, Mrs. Duncan and a five-year-old Sadie wife fled away into a new city. Sadie doesn’t know the full truth of this. When asked about why she doesn’t see her aunt anymore. He tells her that she tried to steal from him. She knows it’s not the truth because she knows her father is notorious for lying. Unfortunately, Rosie has long passed. Sadie holds on the few memories she has visiting and spending time with her before they moved.
By Elizabeth A3 years ago in Families
Wellness
My soul is a temple which is inside a temporary body. Though we are only here for a short time, it’s still important to take care of your body. Life is supposed to be spent making new memories every single day. As the great Ferris Bueller once said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” What I plan on doing is not spending too much time locked away in the house. Life is full of adventure. Most of the time adventure is outside. I want to go to New York either by myself or with a friend and look at art museums. I want to go to the beach, specifically at night, because that’s when it looks the best. I can see the light fork the moon shimmering down on the waves and listen to the loud roars of the waves. I’ve been thinking about trying new vegan foods seeing as being vegan has many health benefits. From what I’ve heard, it clears up your skin and you just feel better on the outside just like the inside. Life is too short not to be giving new things a try. Can’t knock it until you try it! Instead of going to a gym membership, I think it’ll be more convenient for me to take a walk everyday for about an hour or a few minutes. Little changes over time lead to big results. I’m mostly inspired by my twin brother who takes his health very seriously. He has switched to becoming vegan. He is always making sure he is watching what he’s putting inside of his body. He also does not go a single day without working out at least once a day. He once told me that we aren’t getting any younger and it’s important for us to take care of our bodies. This year, I want to bring a fresh start to a lot of things. I want to do better in all aspects of my life. Getting into skin care is something that I really want to get into a daily routine of getting into. There’s something so satisfying about the whole process. It’s almost like you’re cleansing and rinsing away yesterday to feel refreshed. Another part of wellness is also self care. It’s also recognizing bad habits that you need to change and finding new ones to do. Writing down my personal goals and dreams is something that I want to start doing to become more proactive. What I like doing is to put in small tasks that I need to do throughout the week in my planner. No matter how big or small, I would write it down. What I would do next is create a little checkbox next to each task. When I have company letter it on that day or ahead of time, then I would check it off. Doing this would give me a big sense of accomplishment and it helps with my procrastination. Each year, and everyday, I want to find new ways to elevate myself. Mind, body, and soul. I feel like those are the three things that you have to nurture more and more everyday. It’s almost like a flower. You have to have the soil, seeds, the right environment and water in order to help it grow. I’m not going to burn myself out by trying to do a million things at once. I’m going to slowly ease into changing my habits and it will be smooth sailing from there. After all, it takes 21 days to break a bad habit anyway. I only have one life to live and I want to make the best of it.
By Elizabeth A3 years ago in Longevity
