Personal, physical, emotional, spiritual changes, you can run the whole gamut of human experience - I have gone through them ( and still a work in progress). I went high with success, satisfaction, enlightenment, friendship, contentment, challenges on one end of the spectrum and on the other end -- went wobbly with menopause, empty nest, growing old, senility, self doubt, spiritual dryness, death, weight, sickness, career change, losses...
Here's one I tracked down from my journal more than 6 years ago.
I. Empty nest.
Two rooms were vacant and where my other son slept, at the foot of our bed, was vacant too.
Alone!
My husband slept soundly, while I missed my children.
So I visualized them in my drawings, coming home calling our names and our dogs.
This happened so fast, and before I knew it, they were all over our place again, all over us with their wives and husband and children.
not bad!
My drawings made me laugh so hard after I made them that the drama was over in a day.
II. Death
II. Death
And this one made me laugh harder!!
tears on paper
III. Sacrifices
Things were considered very seriously as I was writing this several years ago but I rolled on the floor crying and bursting to the seams reading it again a few days ago!
And I can't believe what I wrote as my final sacrifice: " I will not buy anything for myself - anything I already have!
(in fairness, it worked very well indeed)
Oh the things I did to keep my sanity!
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