Support Kyle to Build a Real Future

Hi, my name is Kyle Farrell. I'm an artist and writer currently living in my hometown of Eugene. I moved back to get sober from alcohol and away from a codependent relationship in Anchorage, Alaska. It has not been easy being back, and I'm very close to going homeless after a toxic business arrangement with family has left me broke and isolated for over a year.

I'm very close to losing everything I feel I've made progress on: my mental health, physical health, good habits, my artwork and the equipment I have to run a small printshop for the few customers I've been able to get.

It's extremely hard, depressing and confusing being back.

My family has not been helpful, or present. My friends have lives of their own. I would like to have one, but I've been digging out of a hole for a business my father wanted to start, before pulling the funding and inventory after I'd set my life up to run it. Some money was given as "help," but a fraction of the expected income, and never without a fight.

I've managed to hold off the bill collectors, now repo is imminent, and keep my housing, now seeking a roommate. The location and area, I believe, have been essential to my healing.

I feel punished for choosing a healthy lifestyle. I didn't choose poverty, I moved back and promises were not kept. I was fired illegally by my old best friend for making his company more productive, and his idea unnecessary. It's been a scrape and fight every single day.

I could and likely will, one day, write a book about it.

I just want to be caught up, for once, and I can confidently take it from there. I have years of artwork and writing that I have not had time or space to learn to distribute properly.

Mentally, I'm on the very edge and feel like a burden to the few friends that have helped me so, so much along the way.

I'm asking for help to put myself back in a position to help others. Please help lift this burden so I can stay off the street, maintain healthy choices and mindset, and get back to being able to give back.

For clarity, I have been working to the point of exhaustion to take care of my financial problems on my own for over a year. It has not been enough. Everything is due right now. I'm still working and likely will til the day I die. I want to be working towards something, not cleaning up a mess from the past that was thrust upon me by a greedy family member.

Thank you for being here. You matter.