Greetings,

Welcome to 2023. We’ve been waiting for you. Congratulations on making it through 2019 through 2022. You passed the test. You are officially tougher than you thought you were.

The next issue of the Museletter marks four years of weekly issues. Thinking back, three out of those four years were written during the worst of the pandemic. We tend to do what we need to do to make it through. And the more we can keep the same, the easier it is to face problems head-on. Unless doing that IS the problem. (grin)

Last year Linda and I made a change. It wasn’t a new years resolution, although it should have been, so I could say I made one and kept it. For several years I knew I weighed more than I should. We were getting ‘comfortable’ in our advancing years. We’d spent several years planning to change how we ate. And every time we went to the grocery store, we bought the same food. At least I didn’t expect anything to change. So, I studied and picked no sugar and far fewer carbs and bought some cookbooks with various meals we could make that sounded good.

To make it work, we boxed up our food and gave it away—all of it. And we shopped for the ingredients for the meals we planned to eat. It was certainly different for us, but we enjoyed the new meals. And over time, I realized the craving for food came from our bodies wanting more sugar and carbs. We are no longer hungry. We eat two meals a day, but we aren’t hungry. Linda and I lost what we wanted to lose in about six months. I went from 210 pounds to a steady 167.

Our goal this year is to live each day happily. Do what we want, when we want. And help other people be happy as often as we can.

In last week’s issue, I said I was going to make a few photobooks that were specific to a model. I hadn’t thought that through. And after creating the first one, I realized it was a bad idea. The book turned out wonderfully, and the model and I will have a hard copy next week. And we will be the only ones to have a copy. So, if you visit my studio, it’ll be available to look over.

Here is what I wasn’t considering. If I create a photo book, I want it to be available on my website and on Amazon. Most of my models don’t want that kind of distribution. And, frankly, I hadn’t thought about the stalker situation, although I’m faced with it often. “Do you have nude photos of xxx?!?” The answer is always no, even if I do. So, because only a few people follow me on Social Media and fewer see my posts, and only a few hundred read the Museletter, the distribution is of almost no consequence. If it ends up on someone’s coffee table or Amazon, it goes on forever, even after I’m gone.

So, I’m still planning to make 2 or 3 photo books. We’ll see how it goes because…there aren’t any faces in them. Body scapes, close-ups of body parts, and anything that doesn’t have a face in the image will be the content. In a way, that’s a bit exotic. It will undoubtedly be different.

Then it’ll just be, “can I see who this butt belongs to?!?” (grin)

Happy new year to all of you. Remember, each day is a gift. Open it like a 4-year-old at Christmas and make it the best day of your life! It is totally up to you. Be around people you love, starting with yourself. Don’t expect others to love you if you don’t love yourself. So, self-love gets it going.

Stay healthy. It is the most valuable thing you have.

Stay curious, my friends!

Dave

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