10-13-2020 Secrets

This may be an uncomfortable post for some.

"We're only as sick as our secrets."

Recently, with therapy, I am finding my voice 

and speaking my truth.

It is the only way to heal.

You cannot heal what you deny is wounded.

In past years, 

I knitted 'Secret Dolls'.

They had no mouth

so I could tell them all my secrets

and they couldn't tell them to anyone else.

Now, after some therapy,

I also see them as my inner child

whose voice was taken away.

What I said, felt, or wanted did not matter.

While attending the Oracle Card Academy

in Miami FL,

we were asked to draw a personal power card

from Ros Place's new oracle deck

Power Symbols,

and I drew...

MOUTH.

Wowza~

that was HUGE for me!!!

Speak my truth!

In doing so

I have found many others who endured what I did,

and have found helpers to guide me 

up the mountain towards healing.

Don't keep secrets!

They make you sick.

10-12-2020 Faces

The GDs sewed/embroidered faces 

onto 2 small crocheted teddy bears

which they will be giving to their new boy cousin

due to be born in January 2021.

(didn't get a pix of the second one)

10-11-2020 Halloween Cupcakes

GD wanted to make some Halloween cupcakes with eyes

so we used one-quarter of the 1-2-3-4 Cake Recipe

to make 8 or 9 cupcakes, 

and she insisted on purple frosting with mint flavoring.

10-10-2020 Flower Adoption Agency

GD set up a flower adoption agency

using flowers she pick in our yard...

when you chose one to adopt, 

she would write up a 'prescription' for what it needed.

10-9-2020 Modern Art

By the GDs at the "Think" Room...

And Oma's art...a quick postcard to a friend...

10-8-2020 Coffee Station

Braggin' on my son again...

this time he's making a 'coffee station'...

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

10-7-2020 Dishwasher

Dishwasher is leaking...

time for repairs...which may cost more than a new one!

10-6-2020 Thinking of My Kitty

My sweet kitty Barucha

arrived in my life October 2006

and shared my home and heart for 14 years

before she died this past Spring.

I always think of her as Halloween approaches

because the pet store was reluctant to sell a black cat

this close before Halloween.

However, I somehow persuaded them that

I would not be mistreating her as a Halloween sacrifice

and they let me bring her home with me.

I named her Barucha, because she was such a blessing to me!

My 'therapy' animal.

10-5-2020 CLOUDS

I've been enjoying the clouds these past few days...

thinking about how they bring shade on hot summer days,

life-giving rain to water the plants, animals and humans,

always on the move, being blown about, always changing,

peaceful, busy, destructive, powerful, beautiful, necessary...

uplifted by the heat below, full of water and air and fire energy...

good reminders of upliftment,

and that change is the only constant.

and some pix from the www...

10-4-2020 Kingfisher

My latest painting...a kingfisher...

10-3-2020 Gray Skies

We haven't seen blue skies here in Iowa for over a month...

just gray skies filled with smoke from the wildfires out west.

10-2-2020 Pantry Cleaned!

This past week, I decided to clean out my panty...

something I've not done since we moved in 14 years ago! Yikes!

Threw out all the outdated items and things we no longer use...

washed the shelf...and refilled with current items. Ahhh...

what a great feeling to have cleaned that out!

What can I de-clutter and clean next???

10-1-2020 It's Pumpkin Season!

GD helped me remove my summer bouquet

from the front door entry table

and fixed up a beautiful Fall arrangement for me.

I added a mini crochet pumpkin.

I also crocheted new soles for DD's slippers.

Hope they last the winter!