Overwhelming Gratitude...

...is truly what I feel.

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Thank you, follower friends,

for your more-than-understanding when,

on my last post, you

poured out support.

Wow.

I gathered strength from you

and I truly am overwhelmed with all kinds

of mushy love and gratitude.

And I am grateful for the learning that goes on when we fall.

We all fall

sometimes.

But we are never alone.

Peace,

~k

just me

I know I haven't been around as much lately.

♥

I am trying,

it's just that sometimes when the load is heavier

I am simply working so darn hard just to remain on the path.

Sometimes I imagine everything being easier.

Sometimes I think it's supposed to be.

I need to meditate

and connect all of my dots.

I need to breathe deeply

the sunshine.

And most of all

I need to be able to let the crap roll off me

because really, the people who are ignorant and mean

don't deserve to stay in my head rent-free

and give me migraines

and ruin my peace

and harsh my space.

ew.

That felt kinda good.

Thanks for staying with me today.

~k

On Positive Thinking

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...thinking that positive thoughts

 attract

more positive thoughts.

Letting in the light.

~k

An Unfinished Journal Page

~ Used a sketch of a girl I did

a few months back

in the collage.

'she felt so invisible

that when she looked in the mirror,

even she couldn't find herself.'

 Thank you so much for visiting!

I do so appreciate your messages...

~k

Searching...a Process

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Below, the unplanned process:

white gesso,

3 colors of acrylic paint,

white acrylic paint on my handcarved poppy pod stamp:

"Searching..." handwritten with a white Sharpie Paint Marker:

Wishing you a peaceful rest of the weekend

and prayers for our veteran's...

Thanks so very much for visiting.

~k

Journaling

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As if Hurricane Sandy wasn't terrible enough,

(and the Presidential election busy enough),

now the same coast is threatened by a nor'easter...

snow and freezing rain on top of the devastation.

Millions stranded without power, heat, shelter.

My heart is heavy.

Send strength there,

please.

Thank you,

~k

Triumph and Defeat...Fall Fearless

For Challenge No.3 of "Fall Fearless and Fly"

 ~Prompt and quote on Triumphs and Defeat using only B & W.

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I am not sure that I can label things,

nor events in my life, as Triumphs or as Defeats,

but rather

I can name some of my feelings or traits as those.

Perseverance

in the face of the most difficult of years

climbing instead of crumbling.

Now that's a triumph.

All we can do is try.

Attempt to turn stumbling blocks

into stepping stones.

~k