Collage Prompt 23. Add another tree to your original tree collage. I have been saving the right side page for another tree. And today- I added one. And I added pink. As the collage process went on I was less mournful of the passing of Riley. So, I could add happiness. I even added reflection and berries to the second tree. Life goes on. And they are reaching out to each other.
I was not happy with Prompt 22. Creating a Valentine for something that is very meaningful to you. Even today- after seeing what other's produced- my mind is blank. This might be the one I can't complete.
The Greenhouse contact person called to let me know I have a long list of people coming in tomorrow morning to make a Fairy Garden. I asked about certain supplies. No, No, No. Sigh.
I went looking here at home. I found a box in the garage with tree bark I had collected last year or the year before. I also found a small amount of lichen I collected on our last few walks with Riley (for cloth dyeing) and a bag of tubular sticks from a wind chime I took apart. Could make a nice fence. I also have a bag of small clear plastic balls. Ornaments. Might have enough for each to get one. All the acorns Riley and I collected are moldy. I could see if I can wash and dry them. But perhaps not.... as few have ever wanted to add acorns to their Fairy Gardens. I have a bag of rubber, multicolor frogs. But last February no one wanted them so we'll see. I asked about rocks. My former co-worker sadly replied- no rocks. I don't want to give up MY collection of rocks. In past years I would- but not this year.
They have very few little houses to sell. I do not have Time to make enough houses for everyone so I won't bring any. I will have to get them to use the bark to make a shelter for their Fairy. But I am most disappointed in the lack of moss. We always had a large box of it in the greenhouse. Because I planned ahead.
So- the Best Thing about tomorrow might be the Bacon Egg and Cheese Bagel I get from McDonalds on the way to work.
This is an amazing post. To begin with I have to say that my favorite part of your companion tree is the pastel shadow you drew. It just lights up all the pink, somehow, by being there as the contrast over on the right of the overall spread. Echoing the black trunk on the left because our brain tells us it would/SHOULD be black. And yet light and airy to match the change in how you feel from then til now. LOVE this!!!!
ReplyDeleteAlso as the post went on I saw how the shift in your countenance impacted your awareness it wasn't up to you to cover neglect/oversight by personal sacrifice of your rocks and you weren't willing to *choose* to do it. An epiphany of self-permission that's so important. I always tell myself the more it happens the more I'll just be that way as an automatic response instead of running around to see what I've got to cover everyone properly and enjoyably for them as an experience they showed up to have.
it's just astonishing what's been going on for you in such a good healing way.
you'll pull this off. People will enjoy it.