Wednesday ART THERAPY

George,

I'm so glad you're feeling creative again, TUTTAM!!! I can't wait to see your latest masterpieces, and will be back tomorrow... Thank you for giving me, all of our GIC "family," something to look forward to.

The timing of your post is perfect. It's a miserable cloudy evening, rain and thunderstorms expected later on. While I rather continue "talking" to you, I better check the radar, see when the best time will be to take Skye for her evening walk.

As always, sending you lots of hugs and love, wishing you peace, all of us peace, all the way from TUTTAMVILLE. DEB & Skye Queen

 

First paintings I created at my new aparatamant! (yes I know I spelled it funny!)

 

For some reason the upload function was teknoFreaky today. Sorry for the multiple uploads!

 

Thank you so much George for posting your great artwork today, the official start of summer. A perfect contribution to mark Summer Solstice, your delightful colours have definitely cheered me up and brought a smile on my face.
Rose.

 

Thanks Rose! I appreciate your kind words! I think my new place will spark my creativity again!

 

George. As always, so beautiful! Going through a few things right now. Your art brought me some peace. Thank you for that! I’m glad your new apartment might inspire you. Robin

 

Thanks Robin! I feel so much better getting out of the Lombardville wasteland. I truly hope the things you are going through resolve themselves in a cal and positive manner! Much love!

 

George,

I dropped by tonight just to check out your most recent creations. They're beautiful!!!, TUTTAM!!! As always thank you so much for all the smiles...

Would rather "talk" to you some more, but it's time to take Skye Queen for her evening walk.

Sending you lots of hugs and love, wishing you peace, all of us peace, all the way from TUTTAMVILLE Debanator and Skye Queen

 

Bravo Bro Geo da Vinci!!! Nice creativity from your new apartamant in Shy Town USA. Like Rose said what a way to celebrate the summer solstice. I celebrated the summer solstice early last night watching the planetary alignment with the crescent moon Venus and Mars. I took a lawn chair to the backyard and found the moon and then Venus appeared and finally Mars. I waited and watched for about 90 minutes. My beloved Cheryl and I used to sit in the backyard to watch sunsets as Cheryl worked her camera magic by capturing a blade of grass a bow from a pine and the colors of the sunset. I felt like I was in another world watching the alignment unfold. I felt Cheryl’s presence with me. I had forgotten how serene it is there. I was so inspired I walked the labyrinth under darkness. The ground is so dry I could hear it crunch. I returned to the chair for another look and decided to call it a wrap. The experience wired me and it took longer to fall asleep. It’s happening right now again as I write this but I’m going to pass and maybe try it tomorrow night. The solstices equinoxes and alignments are magical to connect with our beloved. In this moment I love you all! Gary

 

That’s awesome George. Such great news!! And thank you for the love! I could use it! I’m just letting things get to me. Not sure how to describe it, except sucky and overwhelming. Something everyone here is familiar with. It'll pass. I need to take time to smell the roses. The deer have eaten them since this picture.
Love and hugs, Robin

 

Thank you for sharing that Gary. What a beautiful peaceful evening. And the connection you felt does sound magical. I planned to watch the sky too. I forgot and last night the sky was full of clouds. Getting rain next few days. Which we desperately need. My connection with Ron lately has been through butterflies. I walk out onto my deck and last few days a butterfly flies around me and then lands on me. I feel Ron’s presence when this happens. It does bring a smile and memories. And I hear him telling me to slow down, which I’m trying to do.
Thank you for the love, what a wonderful family we have here. I’d be lost without it. ❤️ Robin

 

Robin and Gary, I see we share the same passion for observing the stars. Luckily we're having clear skies now, I stood outside in my yard for a few moments gazing at the crescent moon too last night, Venus close by, while being surrounded by the flashing lights of the fireflies. It sure gives me peace of mind looking up there. Gary, your description of your magical experience was very moving, and
Robin, that butterfly was definitely your Ron's presence, looking out for you, and I love your beautiful red roses.
Hug to you all.
Rose.

 

George, you're on a roll. I love the colors you use.

 

I am a new member and am so fortunate and gratified to have found this site. I have written many pages to myself of my experiences and emotions over the last five years since I lost Janet. Perhaps I have gone overboard in the month since I became a member and have posted more times than typical. However, it's not surprising that I have done so because the postings of others are so on target with my thoughts and experiences, and the site obviously encourages revealing even intensely personal feelings and experiences with total candidness free of both embarrassment and any risk of judgment. I have just read the moving experiences of Robin and Gary with nature and their interpretations of their experiences and am struck by their ease in their portrayals and their correlation of nature with the presence of their soulmates. I relate so completely to those positions but have to say that anytime I have begun to reveal those positions, I have been met with "the look" and suspected of being a person of unsound mind. How comforting not to face that scrutiny. Sorry for the extensive lead-in, but now I will proceed with the remarkable, but true, story of the events that literally changed and perhaps even saved my life. It is a long story but hopefully worthwhile to follow.

Janet and I lived in Texas in a remote cabin on a three-acre lake. In the wintertime, the lake is home to countless ducks. Every morning upon opening the porch screen door, just the squeak of the door-opening scares the ducks to flight. There is a hectic flurry of activity as the ducks thrash in the water and create a chaotic scene of hundreds of terrified birds flying in all directions. It is quite a scene to see. This pattern repeats itself every day. Overnight after quiet has returned to the lake, the ducks return to the lake only to repeat their frantic escape the next morning when Janet or I open the screen door. You might think that the ducks would either become used to the threat posed by Janet and me or else find another lake for resting. But no, the pattern repeats every day.

Then came the highly publicized hundred-year hard freeze in Texas in February 2021. Unprepared for the extreme conditions, it became a disaster that killed hundreds of people in Texas. The cabin could not handle temperatures that low, so I temporarily lived in town for a week. When I returned to the cabin, things had changed. There were no longer ducks in the morning. It was as if the ducks had abandoned the lake for safer surroundings. Two months passed without seeing even one duck on the lake.

Then on April 22, that special day in my life, it all happened. It would have been Janet's 70th birthday, if she were still living. It was the 20th anniversary of our marriage. We had been together for years but officially got married at the cabin on her 50th birthday. It was also on that day three years earlier that I had buried her ashes under her nearby gravestone. I remember having an overriding sense that something special was going to happen. I sat on the porch waiting and hoping. While I never heard or saw them land, I spotted three ducks alone together on the far side of the lake. I had not seen ducks on the lake for over two months, and I obviously thought it odd that they had suddenly reappeared after so long. I found it suspiciously coincidental that their appearance would be on this special day. Suddenly the three ducks rose up off the water and for no apparent reason flew just above the water directly toward the cabin. They landed about twenty feet from the lake edge in front of the deck with their characteristic loud splash as they hit the water. My dog Lilly reacted and charged to the end of the deck with her piercing chorus of barks. The three ducks were undeterred and remained floating there in what would otherwise have seemed to be a moment of great peril. Having had no impact, Lilly returned to her spot on the deck. Realize that these are the same ducks that are frightened away by the squeak of the screen door at a distance of fifty yards but are now undeterred by a charging dog at twenty feet.

As they calmly floated there together, in unison they slowly lowered their heads and necks under the water. After what seemed an inordinate amount of time under water, they slowly raised their heads in unison back upright and then methodically repeated the same entire gesture one more time. I could only interpret this gesture as their equivalent version of people kneeling and bowing their heads. I stood up and went out on the deck. The three ducks acknowledged my presence and slowly paddled away, not to be seen again until the next winter. I believe that Janet reached out to me on that special day across the spiritual boundary that separates us. I felt her presence as strongly as I ever had and the reunion that awaits us some day. As I stated above, reliving that day and those precious moments has lifted me many times from the depths of despair that can sometimes invade my life.

 

I’m so glad you’re having clear skies. It’s been a while for you. I sincerely believe nature helps us all so much. Your moments last night enjoying the moon and fireflies sounds so peaceful and beautiful. Thank you on my roses they’re in the memorial garden. Ron would love them. I think I can safely say that it’s the simple things in life that brings us all the most peace. ❤️ Robin

 

That's a great positive story Bro!

 

Nature is amazing.
It finds the resonance of our beloved's desire and executes a moving display. It's in the way the flowers grow, a shift in the sound of rain on a tin roof, a fowl dance, the chimes moved by a puff of breeze, it's in the scent of my tea where my herbs steeps.
Kenn feels closer when I am in gratitude for the moment I'm in. My receptivity to his frequency in the world around me. Receptivity is so deeply in my dna, it's what we're built for as women. The new moon, the solstice, everything has shifted perspectives of light. Tuning in to the change in shadows. ~B

love the art George!

 

Thank you!

Thanx!!!!!!!!!

 

Jeffry, you describe so well, so vividly, the scenes with those beautiful ducks, I can clearly feel those emotions they must have stirred in you, particularly because it all happened on her birthday.

This site is definitely a godsend for us all, we can share our innermost feelings with the reassurance that we will be understood,and not judged, unlike others who haven't experienced the same grief. It's saving my sanity,that's for sure.
Rose.

 

Wednesday Art Therapy! Happy July!