A Different Type of Payment

October 30, 2012

Yesterday I received an email. It was from a lady who had encountered some of my street art in Atlanta. The last couple of days I had been thinking about how I need to convert my hard work and painting into a better income. An income I can better survive on. I feel lately like things might crash in on me at any given moment. A + B isn’t quite adding up to C.

After reading her email letter I did a lot of thinking. It was really incredible to read her words. She was so sincere. Her words really affected me. I kept thinking and realized I just might be getting paid highly and not know it. Maybe the profits are just in another form of currency.

Here is the letter:

Hello! My name is ***** and my husband and I are currently living in a hotel in college park with our two young kids (2 & 4 years old). We are from Minnesota, and hope to be living in Atlanta (Kirkwood) by early December. 

Its been an emotional two hears for our family. My husband works for Delta and has spent a lot of time commuting here from Saint Paul. It has been hard for us to be apart! But here we are now and although we aren’t here for good yet, it feels like a new beginning for our family. We sold our house in St. Paul so we are good to go soon.

Driving around east Atlanta (looking for an oil change place) I drove by your “we all family” piece, which made me smile so hard. I turned the car around to take a picture, and came face to face with “sad get glad” and wow, it made me gasp – for real. It was everything I have felt these last two years, laid bare. 

I don’t know what led you to make it, but please know how much it means to me. 

Thanks for what you do.

– kyle