Friday, 2 May 2014

Hello again,
Well this month's theme for me is to "Be Happy" and there are a few threads I have followed based on this theme. As you know I am quite spiritual and one of our missionary friends taught us that we can choose to be happy. They called round one night to teach us that fact - when I was choosing to be sad. Then I began to think more about what keeps us from being happy. There is a course  being run  at work - about "Mindfullness" and the theory behind it is that we should live in the minute instead of letting the bad things in the past or what might happen in the future pull down our thoughts and mood.  So I tried to practice this on Tuesday and ended up cutting the grass as the weather was beautiful. I began to focus on the beauty of nature and this gave me a wonderful feeling of what great blessings we have instead of complaining about cutting the grass.
Then I found some old videos of the family and saw how wonderful each person is in our family and I again realized how blessed I am to have them in my life.
I just wanted to be able to be the best I can be for my family and one way of getting rid of bad stuff in my life is to draw and paint.  So the result of this was the following picture - which has some text in it as well. I liken the image to our inner thoughts and the text is a poem and  is just being a bit cathartic - I think that is the word you use! I did not paint each individual cell as it was just a repeat of an image which I like and taken from the Art rage programme. The title is  - Hide Inside

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