Week Word- THERAPEUTIC

WEEK WORD-  THERAPEUTIC


Welcome All!


As I explore through each blog for word interpretations every week, I notice that many of you are quite creative.  So it probably goes without saying that you all know that when you go a while without being able to create, (say because of your job, chores, overflowing to do lists, etc.) you can go through a creative withdrawal of sorts.  At least that is what happens here....  When this one can't sit down to paint/draw, etc. she gets antsy, restless and sometimes even grumpy. It's like I don't even know her anymore.

So we need find ways to deal.

When you have a family, your time is their time, most of the time.  So, if you can't beat em join 'em... or let me rephrase that....

I need to stop, and just go with the flow.

I need to realize that I don't have to make a masterpiece or sacrifice time with my family to appease my creative angst monster.

I can share my boy's passion for sea animals, be crafty, spend quality time with him AND make him happy while his smile and enthusiasm make me happy a the while.

We made a hammerhead shark.  It was very THERAPEUTIC. 

these photos were taken while this guy was in progress...  Papier mache is very therapeutic.  Its messy, goopy on your hands and fun.  This guy is made of crumpled recycled newspaper and reused gray packing paper.  We used an Elmers brand mixture but you can use flour and water for the mix.

Here's a recipe:

Combine:
1/2 c All Purpose Flour
2 c cold water

then add that mix to this separate mix:
2c boiling water
3Tbsp sugar

Stir until combined.   :)

Even if you don't have children around this is fun (and therapeutic)

N here is my testimonial that Papier mache is a happy maker.

Thank you for visiting!
 Please be sure to also visit Domestic Scribbles' Blog to see some more interpretations of 'Therapeutic'. 
We have a great group of creative people on the week word train and are always welcoming more folks to join.  Visit Junebug's Musings to see next week's word and instructions on how to join.  


SORRY,  this new editor is getting the better of me...

my boys appreciating the flowers

Weekword- now

Week WORD- 'Now'

This is a tricky one for an image...

I would continuously have to freeze time in stills and choose one to represent 'now',

but now is fleeting so how can I do that?

Maybe a photograph of a Dandelion with its seeds blowing in the wind,

or a clock with no hands,

or and single grain of sand in an hourglass

in suspended animation...

these are some of the visuals I'm getting

but what really comes to mind

is an excerpt from

Kahlil Gibran's ---The Prophet---

------ And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?

And he answered:

You would measure time in the measureless

and the immeasurable.

You would adjust your conduct and even

direct the course of your spirit according to

hours and seasons.

Of time you would make a stream upon

whose bank you would sit and watch its

flowing.

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's

timelessness,

And knows that yesterday is but today's

memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

And that which sings and contemplates

in you is still dwelling within the

bounds of that first moment which scattered

the stars into space.

Who among you does not feel that his

power to love is boundless?

And yet who does not feel that very love,

though boundless, encompassed within the

center of his being, and moving not from

love thought to love thought, nor from

love deeds to other love deeds?

And is not time even as love is, undivided

and spaceless?

But if in your thought you must measure

time into seasons, let each season encircle

all the other seasons,

And let today embrace the past with

remembrance and the future with longing.--------

And so, these are the images that I choose to embrace,

season to season, past, future, 'NOW'

and 'whenever' have you~

Thank you to Hanna for the opportunity to reflect on this weekWORD. Visit her for more links to other interpretations of ---NOW.---

on a walk and around the neighborhood and yard with little boy and camera in tow

Here there be owl pellets!

hyper-focused on peeling bark

With all the wind, this Robin's nest came down... :( The egg shown didn't make it. With Mother Robin not in sight, my husband brought the cold little eggs to me so I filled up some plastic bottles with hot water for them to snuggle with and I misted them with warm water. Keeping them warm is not easy. Especially when they have to be damp too. One is trying so hard to hatch today. I hope it lives. I know its not legal to keep them so I have to find out who can take them if they hatch. I love the color of these eggs.

Noah's dirt mound

This tractor has been here for a week or so...

Noah wants to go outside to visit it everyday

We saved a little frog from certain death (lawnmower)

this is Noah's first encounter with a frog

he knew just what to do

he gave the frog some leaves to make him comfy

he was gentle when handling the frog

the frog liked Noah's boots

and Noah liked the frog

Quick trip to the Cape/ Noah's first time seeing the Ocean

sharing Noah's 1st encounter with the ocean

it was rainy and windy but he loved it

Dad's orchids

lichen invasion!

Ocean!

I can't believe how much lichen is EVERYWHERE

the herring run

lone seagull at the beach

Dad's weathervane

Noah's hands