Can I tell you about my brother Shaun?

Published about 1 month ago • 2 min read

Hey Reader!

I have a charcoal drawing of my brother Shaun hanging on my wall. I made it with my own two hands, eleven years ago, in a drawing class I almost didn’t take, because I’d spent the first 27 years of my life convinced I wasn’t an artistic person.

Shaun was 20 years older than me, so we didn’t exactly grow up together, but I looked up to him and learned so much from him. He was one of the most magnetic and deeply talented people I’ve ever known: a musician, an artist, an entrepreneur, the kind of person who walked into a room and made everyone in it feel like he’d known them their whole life.

He also struggled mightily with bipolar disorder and drug addiction for most of his life, and we tragically lost him to an overdose at 44 (nearly 13 years ago).

When I took this drawing class in 2015 and my drawing teacher told us to bring in a photo we wanted to recreate, naturally, I brought one of Shaun. By the end of the course, I had captured him in charcoal, looking exactly the way he looked when he was at his best.

I pass that drawing of him about 20 times a day. And I think a lot about how I almost didn’t have this piece of him, simply because I’d been telling myself for 27 years that I wasn’t artistic, with zero evidence to back that up.

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See you next week, Reader!

Boldly yours,

Rachel Honeyman

CEO @ HoneyBeBold

HoneyBeBold, Oceanside, NY
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