Anisette Studio

It’s been a while, but I Good Morning Sunshine is back! I am finally settled into my new home here in West Greenwich, Rhode Island! It is a small cottage which is now Muddy Brook Studio, home to Pejj Nunes.

A first blog on my new computer, in my new studio! It has taken me a while to get to this point! I look back and now realize the why of it all.

I am not sure I can recoup my first blog for Good Morning Sunshine. Have not learned if I can merge it yet. But perhaps some of my followers will recognize me.

Life has changed since 2020, this was when the love of my life Thomas Nunes died. After there was the process of mourning his loss, and deciding to sell our home so I could live near my daughter and have a larger family around me. There is a lot to preparing for the sale of a home, moving to a rental home and then the purchase of a new home. This home? A raised ranch for my daughter and her family and an in-law cottage for me! A great solution. I felt I would rather move and reestablish myself as an artist now, not later on.

It is important to change things up after losing one’s partner. You’re never going to forget that person. But a single life is suddenly yours, as your loved ones has gone poof! And you’re left with what was, and so your faced with what do I do, what do I want now? My life with Thomas had been a very good life in many ways. I came away feeling very loved and wanted! I had been a caregiver for my sweetheart. A role you don’t fully realize until it ends. Thomas and I had been caregivers prior for his parents. I had worked as a caregiver. So, I took my role in stride. But caregiving one’s intimate partner is different.

Thomas heart stopped. I think because he had had heart surgery to add a valve, this would last just so long. That had been in 2014, the same year I had surgery for cancer. Now I am a survivor, a surreal reality. Thomas also had developed Pulmonary Fibrosis. This was in the end stages, he had oxygen which he hated. Between the two his death was a better death than if it had been the Pulmonary Fibrosis alone.

Some of this, some of you will know if you are familiar with my prior blogs. But I am further along the line now. I am still glad I took the time to think about what I wanted my future to become. There is a better way to look at what is not very easy to come to terms with. Being alone, no longer a couple with all the benefits of being a couple. Poof! And there you are. This you can survive, and life can become good and feel whole!

What I decided is life would have interest in it if I did things different than I had, and if I set a goal of doing what I had wanted and yet never had! And if I did complete new things! Such as colors or the objects used in my home. I decided on going Boho! The new home would remain as a palette of color and kind. This had worked before. And so, I live in an interesting cottage which I am blending to become cozy and warm.

My grandchildren are in my world, and my daughter every day so I am not alone. I overcome fears such as concern over the loss of my independence. Something very important to me. After all I had owned my own home, had my own art related business. I was in charge. I still am! That is why this will work. There will be a day when it may not work so well. I could die as Thomas did. But for now, the plan is to live fully and make life interesting.

Best wishes! Pejj Nunes 1/3/2024