โ28-04-2025 11:41 PM
โ28-04-2025 11:41 PM
Quietly sitting with you @Appleblossom . Listening and caring.
I'm reminded of Donna William's book Nobody Nowhere. I wonder if you can write. It may be incoherent and episodic at first and it may be difficult. But perhaps it could honour your family, both the generations before and your generation, and help the young ones, and bring you some peace or even a degree of closure on some chapters if you wish - not to deny them, but by bringing them to light so they can inform how you and the young ones choose to move on.
Peace and every good - Pax et Bonum.
โ28-04-2025 11:57 PM
โ28-04-2025 11:57 PM
One day.... maybe next year... Might be a time for writing.... again. I needed to get connected socially.... To ensure I didn't leave....
Thanks for not rejecting me. @Dimity I don't really want to complain. I know you are vulnerable but our friendship matters to me.
โ29-04-2025 12:01 AM
โ29-04-2025 07:16 PM
โ29-04-2025 07:16 PM
Gouldian finches at waterhole
McCubbin Falls Bridge
Peaceful Distraction ....
Bread, eggs, wine, Carnation
Just filling my eyes and mind with nourishment.
โ29-04-2025 08:31 PM
โ29-04-2025 08:31 PM
@Appleblossom i love those images you posted, and especially love the quote. something about the last painting... it's seems so simple but i feel drawn to it.
โ30-04-2025 12:01 AM
โ30-04-2025 12:01 AM
Love the Gouldian finches @Appleblossom, also the lion with the sheep!
You have posted some lovely images - thanks
โ30-04-2025 12:24 PM
โ30-04-2025 12:24 PM
When I joined the forum another poster mentioned a wonderful art websiteโฆ canโt remember the nameโฆ of the poster or the websiteโฆ but I found it really helpful to look at art and share on the forums. That website did close down, but I found that I still had all the pics in my Sane profile album. Yay for some aspects of tekโฆ. So I thought I would revisit them. It lifts my mood.
That last pic is from the Dutch Golden Age of art and reminds me of my Dutch grandfather who loved his eggs. @rav3n
After grandmother died, at the end of his life I was on a roster feeding himโฆ.he wasnโt perfectโฆ. Nobody isโฆ.it is what makes us humanโฆ.but I believe he did the best with what he hadโฆ he was in the WWII camps but taught me not to be racist agin Germansโฆ. That was a good legacyโฆ he was a bit rigid though, and limited educationallyโฆ sadly he fell out with my father over the DLP/ALP split which is why dad went walkabout with us and we ended in orphanages when I was 6. It has taken me a while to piece together some sort of coherent narrative โฆ. Though all the death and mental illness.
My familyโs limitations make sense in the big pictureโฆ. If I look beyond the harsh judgmental language in my official files. So in a narrative therapy model I am thickening the narrativeโฆ.not many people can cope with the Big S wordsโฆ schizophrenia and suicideโฆ. I do encourage Sane to be more open minded about diagnostic labelsโฆand their limitations.
thanks for being part of my healing journey..
@Shaz51 @Jynx @Dimity @Till23 @rav3n @tyme @Zoe7 @Faith-and-Hope @Snowie @Eve7 and allโฆ
โ30-04-2025 12:36 PM
โ30-04-2025 12:36 PM
Love the pictures @Appleblossom .
Back in the day I came across idea of "rich narrative".
I reckon life's tapestry is complex and multilayered.
Pax et Bonum. The phrase seems to resonate for me atm. Go well.
โ30-04-2025 04:54 PM
โ30-04-2025 04:54 PM
We have been with each other for a long time here @Appleblossom and I do remember those days we talked about art and your past. Both helped me in ways you will never know so thank you for being here and I am grateful I have had you along the journey also โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
โ30-04-2025 08:03 PM
โ30-04-2025 08:03 PM
We have been with each other for a long time here @Appleblossom and I do remember those days we talked about art and your past. Both helped me in ways you will never know so thank you for being here and I am grateful I have had you along the journey also
I totally agree with what you said above my sister @Zoe7 โค๏ธ
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