The Farewells of 2023 Are Almost Done!!

Hi Everyone! I got my new computer installed two weeks ago and we’re still tweaking a few programs here and there, but I have gotten back to working on my annual salute to all the newsmakers we lost in 2023, and it’s almost done!!

When I make this annual collage, I always make sure to find the best pictures I can of each personality I can find. I can hear you now– “That’s fine Therese, but why does it take so long?”

Well, many factors, including the new computer, but especially this: I love faces, and I try to convey their best face in their farewells. This is one reason it almost always takes me so long to finish!! Another matter is once you have all the pictures, then I convert them into .png images so I can layer them into groups of similar professions (Sports, actors, creators, newsmakers, musicians, and of course, the Star Trek family). Some of the more well known/iconic performers get more than one picture (this year Tina Turner, Raquel Welch and Harry Belafonte to name a few) After gathering all the names (spelled right) ages, and brief descriptions of their careers, I arrange each face to their proper group, then make a black and white key where the images are painstakingly outlined and numbered. There are over 265 people in the coming collage!

Ah the key!! This is where the most mistakes happen! I may skip a number, or mislabel a person, or worst of all, review the original list and realize I have LEFT OUT one or two important names!! When this happens, I have to redo the original collage, slipping the person into the right section, and then you have to scooch aside the characters around them to make them fit, them start numbering all over again! If I’m lucky, you won’t be able to figure out who was left out! –I found 3 people this year I had to engineer back into the original, and them re-number, but it will all work out.

I hope to post the final collage by this coming Saturday 2/10, so stay tuned and thanks for your patience!! -Therese xo