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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
For a while I have tried to find a thread I had started when I joined the forum that could be a "home" thread for me.
Being busy about the forum has been a coping style, where I can acknowledge all my different life experiences that had been silenced. Possibly do some good and prevent things from getting worse. Like the little boy with the finger in the dyke.
Feeling fragile
Needing Nurture
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thanks. What do you have coming up @outlander?
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
I saw your gorgeous sloshy bluey purply paintings ... @outlander I liked them.
Not as much into visual arts... not much of a drawer .. have done a bit of fabric work ... including sewing huge lined curtains for 2 houses ... clothes suits and coats for me and others to wear ... before I could buy at the op shop .. it was just the way I was brought up ... to make things. the op shops also only had small clothes so for about 30 years ... as I was so tall .. i bought mens suits ...if I could not be bothered to make them...wore them with jeans ...
now its mostly ... music and literature.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
All sorts @outlander I taught music for 30 years ...
Was singing Dutch pop songs tonight!
blooming predictive txt!
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Been great chatting.
I have to dissappear in a minute to cook tea ... oooops ... its bit late ...
but my boy finally got up and wants dinner.
Talk later.
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outlanderSenior Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Thank you for tulips @outlander one was from my collection the other soft pink one was new.
Well we got through today but it was not without stress.
Stressors:
worry
Jobs completed:
shopping, driving and housework
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