Zentangle Reverie

A few weeks ago I was having a terrible week.  Nothing seemed to be going right at all.  Everything I did took ten times as long as I thought it would and nothing happened the way I expected it too.  I was getting a little discouraged to say the least -- alright I was getting downright depressed!

Then came Friday.  That afternoon a friend came over and after giving her an energy session, she taught me how to do Zentangle.  I had seen this before but didn't have a clue how to do it.  She took out all of her supplies and showed me some patterns and I was away.  After she left, I took out some blank greeting cards I had on hand and my gel pens and started doodling (that's basically what it is).

 

I could not believe how it changed my mood right around. I felt energized, ready to take on the world.  It relaxed me and left me feeling content and at peace with myself and the world!  By the end of the weekend, I had finished eight or ten of these cards already.

I continue to find that when I'm a bit stressed, I take out my cards and pens and start doodling.  Just the act of doing a pattern over and over again, discerning what pattern wants to go where, and just being fully absorbed in it, brings inner (and outer) peace to my life.  As I doodle, all the cares, worries, and anxieties just drift away.  I am transported to another place -- that place where I am connected to, and a part of, the inner Love of the Universe!

Thank you Zentangle!

Journey of Excitement and Anticipation

Last Thursday, October 24, I left home on a long journey to Glidden, Saskatchewan via Saskatoon.  I know that's a very long way around, but I needed to stop in Saskatoon.  I was filled with excited anticipation for several reasons as you will discover.

I used to think that this time of year -- when the colourful autumn leaves have all fallen from the trees and before the snow covers everything with a white blanket -- as drab and gray.  I have since learned different.





As I headed toward Saskatoon, the sun was shining brightly behind my left shoulder.  The enormous prairie sky was a beautiful blue with delicate white feathery wisps of clouds.

All the way along the colours never ceased to amaze me. 

All the tints and shades and hues of golden yellow in the grass and fields of combined grain, the rust of the weeds and small bushes, the red to wine of the willow trees, and even some green still on the trees and grass in places.  I even saw some bushes in one spot that, with the sun shining on them, were a bright pink.  All this spectacular colour added to the excitement I was already feeling.

Then there was the wildlife I glimpsed at times.  A coyote running along between the two sides of the divided highway,  flocks and flocks of geese circling in the air, the ducks and even some swans.  Again all of these added to the excitement I felt.

I arrived in Saskatoon at the printers to look over the proof of my new book!  Amazing!  It was so much more beautiful than I had imagined.  Incredible.  Now I can hardly wait until I have the actual books in my little hands - one to two weeks!  (You'll hear more about that in a future blog.)

Leaving Saskatoon and heading out to Kindersley and then on to Glidden, even more colours were awaiting me.  The sunset came with some glorious colours.

It was after the sun had set completely that the sky came alive.  The feathery clouds turned all shades of pink and peach against the blue sky.

The horizon remained peachy-orange long after the sun was gone and almost the whole way to Glidden!

So when I arrived in Glidden I was so filled with contentment, peace, awe and wonder, and excitement!  And the excited anticipation comes as we wait for a new baby to arrive - my son and daughter-in-law's - our second grandchild.  

This is the two (or should I say three) of them dressed up for a Hallowe'en party as Father Time and Mother Earth.

Another bonus, I will see my other two sons, another daughter-in-law and our precious little granddaughter while I'm here.  Life just doesn't get any better than this!!