Today has been a day of recovery. The last several weeks have been more than full. January was my best month for camera strap sales. Then sales took an even bigger jump at the beginning of February. It's been a struggle to keep up. Sales have dropped the past few days allowing me to catch up. Not that I'm complaining! Not many businesses have sales that are going up.

Then my daughter Katie called at the beginning of the week very upset. Not to go into much detail but my grandson Mike was born 9 1/2 years ago. About a week after he was born his father was murdered. There were three involved in the murder. One of them had gone to school with Katie. He is in prison now and his younger brother is a graffiti artist who opened up a show at a local gallery. Unfortunately some of the paintings were done by his older brother who does his art in prison. The paintings of the older brother obviously were related to his crime. This is what upset Katie. Zoe and I went down and talked to the gallery owner. She has only been on the Island for 4 years and didn't know the story behind why the older brother was in prison or that local people were affected. She was touched by our story and, after talking it over with the younger brother and his family and agonizing over it, decided to take the paintings down. They were only a small part of the show and she had other pieces to fill in but it took her two days to make the changes. She finished today. It was a relief but before she made her decision it did open up old wounds and upset me more than I thought it would.