Dear beautiful and bizarre friends, Issue 29 of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, with Omar Rayyan’s incredible surreal painting 'Chrysanthemums' on the cover, is on sale now! This issue is filled with inspiring personal stories and amazing artwork from around the globe. I hope this issue lifts you up and transports you to your happy place. Lessons from a Pandemic As I write this, we as a species are in the midst of a global pandemic. The situation is truly surreal – I often feel that perhaps I will wake from a strange and frightening dream. But sadly this is real, in just 2 short months the world has changed completely. We can no longer visit or hug our loved ones, millions are infected, hundreds of thousands dead, and even more live in fear and isolation as