Seems Like a Big Gap

...but really it hasn't been.  I had a whole post all written and ready to go and added my pics then decided to move one of them.  That screwed things up so I hit "undo" and, voila! My post went into Blog Ether, never to be recovered.  Sad, but true. That was just 2 days ago.

Since then I found a free workshop on Visual Journaling to which I am very new, and the first assignment is to cut up something from past journaling and make new art from it. Well, the only old journals I have come predominantly from written journals kept almost 20 years ago now and they're embarrassingly obsessed with the man in my life at that time, heat-driven ravings actually, that fill numerous journals which I started keeping as part of therapy related to working out Family of Origin Mysteries. I had planned to burn them but I didn't want to lose the really nice nuggets that are interspersed with the rantings of obsession. So I was going to read, rip, and burn the non-nugget pages.

In light of this new opportunity I thought these pages needed to take flight.  The idea felt right when I decided to make them into birds.  I began re-reading in search of nuggets and decided I just couldn't waste the time to sift through all the ridiculous angst of those years, let alone have the energy to re-visit the issues I was working through during the years I wrote them.  I have at times past gone back to them to revisit, but I know what's there and I know I've closed the doors on much of what I wrote about. Time for releasing some birds. Photos to follow.