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KrishnaSenior Contributor
Hi @Anastasia @Bunniekins and other friends. Just to let you know my girl has been found and back in hospital. Exhale. Flooded in where I live with no mobile reception or internet unless I drive up the top of the mountain so limited communications. Just wanted to share some good news and thank you for your love and support xxx Now for some sunshine please xx
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KrishnaSenior Contributor
Thanks @Shaz51 . Very much a relaxing mindful pastime. ❤️
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KrishnaSenior Contributor
@Appleblossom What form of artwork do you do? I'm sorry to read you also have a daughter absent from your life. All my nieces and nephews recently had a gathering with all their children as well. I just couldn't face attending, although it probably would have been good medicine, but seeing them all together and making good lives for themselves just makes me sad for my girl having made some really bad decisions and now paying the price. I just hope one day with the right meds and support she will be able to live and not just exist. What else do you do to cope?
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Not really arty or crafty ... but I have done a lot of different things from tapestry, sewing. I grew up with painterly arts being valued, but never really took it up. I enjoy gradually watching my aestheics take form around me, in the home, in sculpting my garden. Cos of a lot of prejudice and bullying over me, I like to be careful about colour and prefer colours that nature gives us ... tho ... I love the Golden Age in Painting, in the real, in literature and in the imagination.
and not just being the subject of the male gaze
I found this a little gem of a read ...
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