Peanut Butter & Jelly, the Sandwich of Champions

You're the peanut butter. You're the jelly. You're also somehow the bread, the plate, and the one who cleaned up after.

This one's for the sandwich generation — those of us holding up aging parents with one hand and launching (and re-launching) adult kids with the other, all while trying to remember who we are in the middle of it all. It's a lot. It's also kind of beautiful, in the most exhausting way possible.

Purple wings brushed with lavender and magenta, bold orange eye spots, and periwinkle lower wings dotted in black — this butterfly is doing the most, and she looks stunning doing it.

You're still flying, sandwich and all.

Original acrylic on 5×5 birch wood block · One of a kind · From the Getting Through the Ugly collection by Lori Friedrichs