Beauty Forgiveness Healing

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Wet

It is raining here. Yesterday the motorways were stuck (I witnessed a huge truck in the ditch so I assume the bumper-to-bumper traffic here and there was all due to several accidents due to rainy weather). Today I am expecting my friends to cancel the brunch meeting we planned a while back. If I am not meeting with friends I am torn between watching a movie or dusting and organising the bookshelves...

The art project(s) have got wind under their wings. It looks like there could be funding for it. It is always fun and exciting to come up with an idea that is worthwhile and doable...

I am very excited about starting the art therapy studies in a month's time. Good stuff!

The forecast predicts a bit of sunshine for Wednesday...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Indoors

The rain has arrived. I keep burning candles to keep the house a bit more pleasant and dry. It is flooding up north.

Here is an image of my only indoor plant. Orchid.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

White

I just watched a documentary called The Cats of Mirikatani. It is about an 80-year-old Japanese Grand Master Artist who lived on the streets of New York until the documentary maker asked him to move in to her apartment after 9/11 because the air was toxic outside. It is an amazing story on many levels. It is sad, it is funny, it is healing.

I photographed this flowering bush during Christmas holiday on the island. I do not know the name of it. It is beautiful, like a summer bride.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Pushing through

I took this photo a couple of months ago when my long-suffering mulberry tree started to show signs of life... She looks like she is going to open her wings and fly...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Fresh

I am feeling fresh today although the weather is hot and humid. I think the freshness comes out of the fact that everytime after I go to volunteer at the support service, like I did today, I really feel I have contributed in some way to the wellbeing of others. I then come home and I do not feel down although I still do not have a paid job yet. I know I will find a job in one of these days. And most importantly I am very aware that my issues are really minuscule compared to many other people. I am not physically sick, I am mentally ok, I have a house, I have food, nobody is after my life and my loved ones are doing ok. I even have a piece of chocolate-beetroot cake left that I made yesterday! So what is there to worry about?

Here is an image of flowering ginger. Fresh!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Layers

There is so many layers to life. There are layers to our every thought, to every action. For instance, the layers of happiness. At the moment I am happy although there is stuff that could go better for me. But, regardless, I am happy. Yesterday I felt really strongly that I really, really would not want to be anyone else, or in anyone else's situation in life. I am happy with mine, and whatever it is that I have to deal with, I will deal with it. I know I can. Because these are my layers.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Suddenly the stars appear

Today's projection looks much more hopeful. There is yellow in the picture. Flowering succulents. Stars reaching towards you. Hey, how easy, you do not have to reach for the stars anymore, just accept that they are there reaching out for you if you care to look.