You are showing me so many more possibilities and ideas with the way you are doing them @dunelmThank you @gennepher, I am happy that they please you.
Thank you for sharing both the creative and that very moving insight into what "animates" you. Your children and grandchildren are due to be richly blessed by what you are doing.I woke up late, at 8pm. Fbg was 7.9
I pulled an all nighter again. I slept for 3 hours from 6pm, then I woke up all bright and chirpy at 9pm. In creative mode. So I reached for the Sketchbook to paint, but then had the urge to add to my writing. Just a few notes I thought. But 7 hours later I was still writing. The thoughts were flowing.
It is an autobiography my children have asked for, for their children. So, this is my life as a child until I leave school at 17 years old, and my children's lives from birth until when they leave school. And then my grown up children can add to it as they read it, because obviously their perspective of things will be different, and it might trigger memories for them to tell their children. The grandchildren in question, are in the 10 to 14 age range, and so it will be relevant to their understanding. My grown up children asked for this as a series of actual letters throughout this year, 2022, that I will post for each of them to read together, and talk about. I will also do individual little sketches on each letter, relevant to my grown up child in question, that I send it to. It will be in instalments.
It is proving to be a bigger project than I thought it would be, because not only is it my life history, it is giving me a further understanding about myself. So, for me, I have also been exploring in my mind what made me what I am, and how I got through things as a child. All that is just as relevant to my life today, and is also a framework for these difficult Covid times today. I always as a child, thought way outside the box. And this was at least in part because of my profound deafness (a deaf person in a hearing world), and not knowing what I was meant to do, nor knowing others' expectations of me which were very low. I did get told to my face that I was useless and that I would get nowhere in life. But I was only lipreading those words, I never felt the impact of the sound that went with it, although I could see the pitying disdain on the face of whoever was telling me this.
But, one thing I always did from the smallest me I can remember was dream. I imagined what I wanted. I imagined what I needed. It wasn't until I was a young teenager that I realised and understood what my parents and teachers expectations of me were, because I was told to my face then. But, by then, I had my own built in self-belief in myself. People (parents and teachers) could put me down, and that would affect me for a bit. But I went back to dreaming and believing in myself.
So, here is my creative for today. Just words on my acrylic painted sheets in my sketchbook.
DREAM
the outcome
and
BELIEVE
I have always done this, and the outcome might not have been what I expected, but it was always better than the before.
I am only human, and I lose my way from time to time as we all do.
But then I dream again...
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Thank you very much @ianpspurs for those words.Thank you for sharing both the creative and that very moving insight into what "animates" you. Your children and grandchildren are due to be richly blessed by what you are doing.
Welcome to our obscure out of the way thread, me and me’s hope some of our posts bring a smile and enjoy the art.Good morning 5.5 for me
Really pleased to hear that you are going home at last@jjraak. Have a good night's sleep tonight!A poor nights sleep
Chap next bed sent home, new chap
Disorientated, and in need of care all night long
My bloods after tea & Cakes early hours, a surprising 5.7...yeehaw.
Other good News. now sat in transportation lounge awaiting evac home .
I woke up late, at 8am
Fbg was 7.9
I pulled an all nighter again. I slept for 3 hours from 6pm, then I woke up all bright and chirpy at 9pm. In creative mode. So I reached for the Sketchbook to paint, but then had the urge to add to my writing. Just a few notes I thought. But 7 hours later I was still writing. The thoughts were flowing.
It is an autobiography my children have asked for, for their children. So, this is my life as a child until I leave school at 17 years old, and my children's lives from birth until when they leave school. And then my grown up children can add to it as they read it, because obviously their perspective of things will be different, and it might trigger memories for them to tell their children. The grandchildren in question, are in the 10 to 14 age range, and so it will be relevant to their understanding. My grown up children asked for this as a series of actual letters throughout this year, 2022, that I will post for each of them to read together, and talk about. I will also do individual little sketches on each letter, relevant to my grown up child in question, that I send it to. It will be in instalments.
It is proving to be a bigger project than I thought it would be, because not only is it my life history, it is giving me a further understanding about myself. So, for me, I have also been exploring in my mind what made me what I am, and how I got through things as a child. All that is just as relevant to my life today, and is also a framework for these difficult Covid times today. I always as a child, thought way outside the box. And this was at least in part because of my profound deafness (a deaf person in a hearing world), and not knowing what I was meant to do, nor knowing others' expectations of me which were very low. I did get told to my face that I was useless and that I would get nowhere in life. But I was only lipreading those words, I never felt the impact of the sound that went with it, although I could see the pitying disdain on the face of whoever was telling me this.
But, one thing I always did from the smallest me I can remember was dream. I imagined what I wanted. I imagined what I needed. It wasn't until I was a young teenager that I realised and understood what my parents and teachers expectations of me were, because I was told to my face then. But, by then, I had my own built in self-belief in myself. People (parents and teachers) could put me down, and that would affect me for a bit. For much longer than it should have done sometimes. But I went back to dreaming and believing in myself.
So, here is my creative for today. Just words on my acrylic painted sheets in my sketchbook.
DREAM
the outcome
and
BELIEVE
I have always done this, and the outcome might not have been what I expected, but it was always better than the before.
I am only human, and I lose my way from time to time as we all do.
But then I dream again...
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Mucho Gracia's.Really pleased to hear this@jjraak.
Tea and cakes? Cakeism appears to be under serious threat so you were just in time. Home James and don't spare the horsesA poor nights sleep
Chap next bed sent home, new chap
Disorientated, and in need of care all night long
My bloods after tea & Cakes early hours, a surprising 5.7...yeehaw.
Other good News. now sat in transportation lounge awaiting evac home .
What a wonderful thing to do for all ofspring. Pretty cathartic I guess.I woke up late, at 8am
Fbg was 7.9
I pulled an all nighter again. I slept for 3 hours from 6pm, then I woke up all bright and chirpy at 9pm. In creative mode. So I reached for the Sketchbook to paint, but then had the urge to add to my writing. Just a few notes I thought. But 7 hours later I was still writing. The thoughts were flowing.
It is an autobiography my children have asked for, for their children. So, this is my life as a child until I leave school at 17 years old, and my children's lives from birth until when they leave school. And then my grown up children can add to it as they read it, because obviously their perspective of things will be different, and it might trigger memories for them to tell their children. The grandchildren in question, are in the 10 to 14 age range, and so it will be relevant to their understanding. My grown up children asked for this as a series of actual letters throughout this year, 2022, that I will post for each of them to read together, and talk about. I will also do individual little sketches on each letter, relevant to my grown up child in question, that I send it to. It will be in instalments.
It is proving to be a bigger project than I thought it would be, because not only is it my life history, it is giving me a further understanding about myself. So, for me, I have also been exploring in my mind what made me what I am, and how I got through things as a child. All that is just as relevant to my life today, and is also a framework for these difficult Covid times today. I always as a child, thought way outside the box. And this was at least in part because of my profound deafness (a deaf person in a hearing world), and not knowing what I was meant to do, nor knowing others' expectations of me which were very low. I did get told to my face that I was useless and that I would get nowhere in life. But I was only lipreading those words, I never felt the impact of the sound that went with it, although I could see the pitying disdain on the face of whoever was telling me this.
But, one thing I always did from the smallest me I can remember was dream. I imagined what I wanted. I imagined what I needed. It wasn't until I was a young teenager that I realised and understood what my parents and teachers expectations of me were, because I was told to my face then. But, by then, I had my own built in self-belief in myself. People (parents and teachers) could put me down, and that would affect me for a bit. For much longer than it should have done sometimes. But I went back to dreaming and believing in myself.
So, here is my creative for today. Just words on my acrylic painted sheets in my sketchbook.
DREAM
the outcome
and
BELIEVE
I have always done this, and the outcome might not have been what I expected, but it was always better than the before.
I am only human, and I lose my way from time to time as we all do.
But then I dream again...
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Smashing reading @SugarlisaGood morning 5.5 for me
SmashingA poor nights sleep
Chap next bed sent home, new chap
Disorientated, and in need of care all night long
My bloods after tea & Cakes early hours, a surprising 5.7...yeehaw.
Other good News. now sat in transportation lounge awaiting evac home .
Great hews you on thour way home.Mucho Gracia's.
Very happy & excited to be in the chute and heading home
Great hews you on thour way home.
Derek
Frustrating wait but that sense of humour is undiminished. Priceless asset.14 ¹/² hours more and I match my commonwealth games indoors individual chair waiting PB.
I really hope the test tomorrow proves useful and the CT scan results arrive soon with some solution to that long standing problem.Good evening folks. Just had a telephone appointment with the nurse practitioner for diabetes following my review blood test. My HbA1c was up from 56 to 64.My last cholesterol test was 7 and the ratio 5.8. No LD? In the past I have proved intolerant to all statins, Ezetimibe and Bezafibrate. In July 2020 my GP asked the advice of the Lipid service at the hospital. It appears that advice was given to check "fasting" lipids including triglycerides and suggested 2 alternatives depending on the results. I knew nothing of this advice as there was no follow up. I inquired about this at my last face to face appointment and was sent a copy of the advice received from the hospital. I discussed this further with the nurse today and have an early appointment tomorrow for a "fasting" lipid test. HbA1c to be retested in 4 months as my recent circumstances may have contributed to my raised level including a concoction of additional medication. I am still awaiting the results of my CT scan. The extra medications I've been prescribed have helped with some of my symptoms and I'm gradually weaning myself off some of them so that's good. Sorry to go on so long. Best wishes to all, especially those of you who are struggling. Take care.
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