Unchanged
Who isn’t afraid of change? …especially when it involves your best pal moving away. As the kid of a military person, I moved around (with my family) a lot. So I was regularly moving away… or my pals moved away… so I am really rather familiar with the idear of this toon.
Brig,
I was in the Air Force for four years. That was in 1979-1983. I went to work for Defense Contractors and have worked on military posts ever since. For the first twelve years, I averaged a move a year. Each time, I left friends behind and have yet to run into any of them. I knew from the start that I would have to remain mobile and only rented apartments until I was relocated to here in Minnesota. I knew I would be here a long time and bought a house. Even with the current housing crisis, it is still worth more than I paid for it.
I’ve met and became friends with quite a few current and ex-military and their “brats”. God Bless them all.
Separations are horrible when folks are emotionally together, yet physically apart.
Separations are worse when people are physically together, yet emotionally apart.
Money and “marriaging” (snicker)? Ryan might be around, but he might not be still around.
Now, if Rye converts over to some fundamentalist polygymous Mormon sect; problem solved?
I don’t want to sound like I’m harshing on your art or anything, but does Ryan have a neck? That’s been bothering me for a while.
Small,
He seems to have a “turtle neck.”
Wow, can I sympathize! Although my dad wasn’t in the military (after he married), we moved around a lot. And I mean a lot. Including the moving around my wife and I did in our first years of marriage, I’ve lived in (in order): Arizona, Wisconsin, Arizona, California, Hawaii, New York, Massachusetts, Arizona, and now in Pennsylvania. And in every state, at least two and as many as five locations.
We’re settled now in Pennsylvania, but we’re looking west again…
I can really understand. I grew up a military brat, joined the military, and the longest I’ve statyed in one place is right here, working with the military in Korea as a contractor. It’s funny to think of a little town in Korea as a home for 19 out of my almost 54 years.
Well, at least it stopped her thinking about the money for the time being…
Wait… so Randie might not be a starving artist forever? Would that necessarily be a change for the better, for her art anyway? I’ve heard many artists go downhill after they become successful, or at least no longer anxious about tomorrow’s meal.
Small Dave/stick-figurer/Brig,
Is that the “Mock Turtle Neck” I suggested that Randie knit for Rye?
“You mock me!”
“I will not be mocked!”
“You mock me!”
…and suppose they bought a never-ending coffee machine?
KEEP TALKING!
The good thing about moving around a lot is that you meet and see all kinds of people. I lived in North Carolina for a couple years and WOW! That’s entirely different from Calif. Pete, you have certainly had your turns at moving! My sister and I seem to have the “moving in our blood” thing. We kept moving even after we moved from home/military…. although she’s marrying a Navy fella… so she’s keeping the tradition alive.
Joe M. Ha! You mock me! Ha! …. Yah. It’s a turtleneck… but you might have noticed that I draw my characters with “hunched shoulders” and this I cannot explain… except that my co-workers used to tell me that I would walk around the store with my shoulders hunched… stress, I believe.
Pat… Wow… Korea is home… What branch(es) of the military?
Stick: I like your thoughts on emotional/separation-ness… but fundamentalist poly whatcha-ma-doogie probably ain’t gonna happen.
…unless there is an everlasting coffee machine.
Kona: Fame/money has ruined many an artist. We are emotional creatures… and sometimes when we get what we long for, we don’t know what to do with it… or we self-destruct… It’s hard to watch the movie Basquiat. Although, many artists probably would have self destructed anyway… but maybe the money and all that just quickens the process. Maybe what we need is to just be comfortable and not starving. ???
Emily and Ryan could afford to buy a house in San Francisco, if they do, only because she is filthy rich. House prices there are among the highest in the country, and for tiny lots.