Thanks 2018

While we have less than 12 hours left in 2018.

So many people are fast forwarding to 2019.

I too am looking forward to a happy new year.

However, let me pause to be grateful for what he have/had in 2018.

5 Things I am thankful for in 2018.

1. The 2018 Holiday Drive.

With the help of friends, families, businesses, artists....our drive helped many this holiday season.
We collected over 100 toys.
We donated to The Food Bank over 200 pounds of food.
We donated to The Covenant House over 200 new pairs of socks/hats/gloves.

We are planing to set up events to help The Covenant House and Food Bank through out 2019.

2. Ray The Curator

Ray The Closer added the title of "Pop-Up Curator" to his resume.
As the year closed my talented friends helped me curate several events that merged parties/art/culture.
That was just the warm up because in 2019 we have several festivals kicking off.
We will be bringing some new and exciting talent to a stage/art gallery maybe even a private home near you. STAY TUNED.

3. TV Got Great Again.

TV this year was as great a year as I ever remembered for broadcast television.
In some cases already great shows got better, like Fear The Walking Dead. Some shows lost a pace like the original Walking Dead franchise. Some shows stayed about where they were like Modern Family.
Then some shows snuck and got wonderful...Black-ish.
Some shows came from no where and took my place as favorites, none more so than The Rel Show on Fox. (Soon I will share my complete top 5 shows.)

4. My health. 
It was my beautiful friend Cha Cha that helped me to see. Everyday is a day you have to make a difference and while you are up right you owe it to yourself to enjoy what ou can, help who you can can and accomplish what you can!

5. LEARNING
I am blessed. I have over 500 things to thank God for in 2018.
I will file for now the rest under LEARNING.
There are so many things I understand more and see clearer that I did not see in 2017.
Everything from being seperated from friends and businesses that were holding me back to moving away from things hat made me too comfortable to finally investing in creating digital art.

2018 I hope I got everything I was meant to get from you.
And I am ready for 2019.
To everyone reading this....let's be ready.

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LOVE IN THE MORNING December 3rd 2018

WHAT IS LOVE WORTH TO YOU?

Most would agree that you can not put a price tag on "love." Have you however, stopped recently to consider the "value of love" in your life?

I lost my father almost 7 years ago.

I don't like math , but if I did the math on every dollar he spend raising me, then lending me (when I couldn't pay back), then free advice that saved me money and heartache, it would take more dollars than I could count to "pay him back."

Fortunately for those I love....I never "do the math" when it comes to the value I place on relationships and love.

Though my father is gone...it feels strange to say...I still feel loved by him.

The value of our relationship was not measured in numbers or dollars ...but with the the times he sacrificed so that I could have.

The love I felt from my father was evaluated by watching him go out into the cold every morning to work outside on buildings high in the Atlantic city sky. I still remember how small I felt as I watched him leave before I left for school and prayed he would not fall to his death as some others had doing carpentry work in AC.

My father was a giving man.

He never ever gave me the impression that what he was doing was special or that I owed him.

My father would sit me down and tell me stuff I could not begin to understand as a teen, as a twenty or thirty something. However, he had faith in me to grow and develop and I would eventually “get it.”

So there's no price I can place on his telling me to "always have a nice dark suit...that will never go out of style" ...or "you need to listen to some Johnny Mathis." I would not take a Fort Knox room of tax free gold in exchange for the stories my father shared of when my he was my age. I do however, know that these experiences we shared ...the love...is incredibly valuable.

I was lucky because I was able to tell him when he was here and I need not wait until he died to appreciate the love he gave me and to give him love back.

Although every time I meet someone that Raymond Tyler Sr . also touched with his giving spirit... I realize I value those times together more each day.

I am a blessed man because my father is one of many tremendous people I have met on life's journey. I have a wealth of friends and family and some colleagues who make me very very rich.

So...Have you thought this morning about what love is worth to YOU?

Have you looked at the laughs, the trips, the ups, the downs, the sideways, the sacrifices, the straight up gifts, the hugs, the kisses, the times “they told you you weren’t all that”,  the memories you get and give through the process of loving?

Don't count the dollars but consider the value... and I bet your Monday will be pretty special.

Always Make Room For Love,

Raymond.

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