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Sleeping too much
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Re: Sleeping too much
maybe @tab, tthanks
Best put hand to task, focus on what I'm doing, mindfully. hmm, so much to catch up on here. What's everyone else doing special today, or different?
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
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Edited to include paintings' artists' details .. flower water colour - L Holberg.
The Resurrection - of Tidying -1945 - Stanley Spencer - maybe cos its just after WWII and there were so many people to grieve?????
Sleep - Abbott Handerson Thayer
Hi @Former-Member I had a free massage with a lovely lady and a phone call with sick brother and drove son to train. I am feeling too tired to go to my rehearsal across town tonight, nothing too bad, but I am making call to stay home and do music and be quiet. Things have been so busy lately.
Regarding that painting called Resurrection .. it is by an Englishman who painted Christian themed quirky English village type scenes. I thought it was weird too, the faces are all deliberately indistinct, but as it had a few tombstones, roses and caring for people actions, it showed a calm, accepting and gentle side of dealing with death. I have spent a bit of time at graves. it wsa just validating to me to see that someone had thought to do a painting like that and put it in the cyclical context of dealth and life and resurrection.
I am over church at the moment. You have to make your own call on it. If it takes more from you than it gives .. hope the opshop is ok still .. just getting out and about enough to suit you .. is what you need .. not criticism.
My brother is not well, his voice frail and says this time he might not make it back to Germany. I cant leave things with son atm and nothing I could do would change the outcome with brother. I did say he his teenage daughter is welcome for a few weekends.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Hugs @Former-Member ...... 💐💜💕
Some church communities need to be taught how to be Christians .... unfortunately ..... but you are in need of pastoral care, not criticism ... agree with @Appleblossom ..... if it's taking more from you than it gives, better to put on worship CD's at home and sing your heart out, then go to a regular coffee shop where the people get to know you and feel that sense of community warmth ... and give some too while you're there ...
In a bigger town you could just try a new church community, but it sounds like you don't have much option .... but do drop in to other churches as a visitor when you go to Brissy or through Sydney .... treat yourself to the experience of being welcomed elsewhere ....
Maybe even consider visiting churches in nearby towns, because a warm church community is worth travelling for, even if it's once a fortnight or once a month ....
Love the artwork you're posting around @Appleblossom ..... ❤️💕
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
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Thanks @Faith-and-Hope Nearly 2 years ago when I started posting .. I started a couple of threads about art therapy.I guess I am finding my own way to do it for me .. I dont aspire to be an artist and have enough on my plate .. no need to do everything .. but I have been engaging solidly with art for the last couple of months .. and it has greatly lifted my mood = art therapy
Then it seemed a good idea to share it round, like you often do .. so thanks for great modelling ... like John Dewey .. I believe in social learning.
Thinking of you sista @Former-Member but gotta do practise now.
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TABSenior Contributor
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Well not going to church is another not mentioned option @Former-Member 😈 Kidding re emoji lol😜😷🎩
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Was mentioned @TAB ..... under stay at home and sing your heart out to worship CD's ..... 😏
Think @Former-Member wants physical company tho ..... and you can find that anywhere the people are warm and caring .... sad if you can't find that in your local church .... but it happens .....
People are people .....
🌷💕
Think @Former-Member wants physical company tho ..... and you can find that anywhere the people are warm and caring .... sad if you can't find that in your local church .... but it happens .....
People are people .....
🌷💕
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
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Wtg @Appleblossom ..... ❣
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TABSenior Contributor
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..I was scanning @Faith-and-Hope 😬 .. seems to be one person missing from this convo ... @Former-Member ....😳 And yes re company etc, iceblocks maybe 😜Lol
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@Appleblossom, there ya go - didn't even register there were headstones in that picture, but I get is now - thanks for explaining. Think my subconscious is protecting me - bit too sad maybe,
Never mind not making rehearsal tonight, I think we need to listen more to our needs and self care - taking a breatha can restore energy & balance. And you've been up late lately. You're heloing me heaps by being so real, open and sensible - in spite of your pain and roadblocks and daily battles. Hugz xox
@Faith-and-Hope, never quite thought of being a regular in a coffee shop, get to know them. We only have 3 little ones in town. Must say, I avoided everyone for a long long time, even in coffee shoos, would burst into tears & slip away. Everything was a trigger, everything. I miss my girl so badly I'd see her in the street and drive by her friends houses. And blackdog twisted everything around - like "everyone hates you for losing your girl, that's why they ignore you"... ... I'm still only just coming out of my shell again and that Luncheon threw the 'church' thing in my face. I think God is sorting out my heart of forgiveness. They do gossip & leave me out but tgats hard to measure when theyre 'polite' to me mostly. When ya know you can be insecure, social phobic & hypersensitive - its hard to know what's 'real' - its not just the church but mixing in general, and trusting. Its hard to be invisible in a small town. I don't know - got confused & paralysed over it. The shop is all you can manage atm I think. One of the bible study ladies had a go at me for being able to do that and not come to group - these Pentecostal types church avoidance as a sign of deliberate sin. Even my only reg visitor (VC) says its 'disobedience' - 'sin' - and she says it with conviction. As a form of self preservation I am not entirely honest about what I'm doing now. I need someone willing enough to check up on me now and then - she's the only one who does.
Tonight I don't feel sane, actually all day, can't remember doing anything accept laying all day. It is a full moon and we've had two good storms that even scared the dog enough to smuggle for protection. Nobody's called or tx, only you guys. Thus is where 'routine' keeps us going but not good in that department. Just feel like auietly giving up and passively slipping away in my sleep, naturally. Hoping it will pass with the weather, usually does with time, refusing to get hooked into acting. You guys can keep me a little connected, maybe? Chech in once a day maybe? My VC wants to visit Thur, she better be relaxed & not picky. Just gotta get my act together with the basics somehow.
My son tx me briefly last night, quick hi nothing I else, empty really but something, crumbs under the table. Oh God help help the 'crumbs' be enough
Just got a 'loaves & fishes' vision - wow, that's proof the HS hasn't left me 🙂
Never mind not making rehearsal tonight, I think we need to listen more to our needs and self care - taking a breatha can restore energy & balance. And you've been up late lately. You're heloing me heaps by being so real, open and sensible - in spite of your pain and roadblocks and daily battles. Hugz xox
@Faith-and-Hope, never quite thought of being a regular in a coffee shop, get to know them. We only have 3 little ones in town. Must say, I avoided everyone for a long long time, even in coffee shoos, would burst into tears & slip away. Everything was a trigger, everything. I miss my girl so badly I'd see her in the street and drive by her friends houses. And blackdog twisted everything around - like "everyone hates you for losing your girl, that's why they ignore you"... ... I'm still only just coming out of my shell again and that Luncheon threw the 'church' thing in my face. I think God is sorting out my heart of forgiveness. They do gossip & leave me out but tgats hard to measure when theyre 'polite' to me mostly. When ya know you can be insecure, social phobic & hypersensitive - its hard to know what's 'real' - its not just the church but mixing in general, and trusting. Its hard to be invisible in a small town. I don't know - got confused & paralysed over it. The shop is all you can manage atm I think. One of the bible study ladies had a go at me for being able to do that and not come to group - these Pentecostal types church avoidance as a sign of deliberate sin. Even my only reg visitor (VC) says its 'disobedience' - 'sin' - and she says it with conviction. As a form of self preservation I am not entirely honest about what I'm doing now. I need someone willing enough to check up on me now and then - she's the only one who does.
Tonight I don't feel sane, actually all day, can't remember doing anything accept laying all day. It is a full moon and we've had two good storms that even scared the dog enough to smuggle for protection. Nobody's called or tx, only you guys. Thus is where 'routine' keeps us going but not good in that department. Just feel like auietly giving up and passively slipping away in my sleep, naturally. Hoping it will pass with the weather, usually does with time, refusing to get hooked into acting. You guys can keep me a little connected, maybe? Chech in once a day maybe? My VC wants to visit Thur, she better be relaxed & not picky. Just gotta get my act together with the basics somehow.
My son tx me briefly last night, quick hi nothing I else, empty really but something, crumbs under the table. Oh God help help the 'crumbs' be enough
Just got a 'loaves & fishes' vision - wow, that's proof the HS hasn't left me 🙂
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Oh, hi @TAB, what I miss, will go check
