Introduction

Hello everyone, I’m Eric, creator of the Arsty Brain. This blog is a few weeks old as you can see by the number of posts, but only a day old on Substack. I mention in an earlier post my long journey to get here.

A little about me, I’m from Texas and work as a paralegal for my wife’s home law office. I was in the Marines for four years back in the 90s. I’ve done a lot of things over the years, because I get bored easily and want to move on to the next thing.

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I have Bipolar disorder and recently learned I’m on the Autism spectrum. Both those things explain a lot about my past and daily struggles, but I try to make the best of it.

I’ve been a pagan for the past 5 years or so, but recently looking into Buddhism and how those practices may benefit my mental health. I’m always looking to learn and grow and improve myself, which is why I created this blog.

I am also an artist, I started out toying with AI, then started learning to draw by hand, I’ve done several mediums including digital on my tablet. I’m back to playing with AI and Midjourney once again as my imagination moves faster than my hands, and with the things I blog about I can better represent how I see things in my head than with hand drawing them.

That’s most of what I know, for now most of my blog posts will be free until I get enough subscribers, then I’ll start doing some longer paid posts. All my back posts are free for now also if you want to peruse them and see what I’m about. I try to stay on topic as much as I can and I may post a lot of notes through the day as I learn my way around.

I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read and I’m pretty open if anyone has any questions. I look forward to reading each of your blogs or as many as I can and getting to know you all as well. I hope we can build a great community here, something that was missing on Wordpress and Ghost. Now that I don’t have to mess with things like SEO and plug ins and code, I can focus on high quality writing, art and content. I may just do some posts or notes of just some of my art creations just to show them. I’d love to move here more from Facebook as that place is becoming more and more insufferable by the day.

Oh, I’m a major swiftie, I love Taylor Swift. This weekend we were just at a Taylor Swift dance party. Fun stuff. Though we didn’t stay as late as we’d wanted to as we are old and get tired easily. Mainly I have no cardio so as much as I would like to sing and dance, I get winded about halfway through any song.

So, that’s a little about me. Feel free to comment and say hello or tell me about you all. Thank you again for taking the time to read and I look forward to talking more with you guys. Until next time.

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