Anne of Carversville

1. A Bad Day for Hair 2 by Kelsey
2. Gulf water by esoule
3. inaya404 Livejournal via ffffound
4. Tada!
5. She Will Be Loved by curlytops

I have a little song to share with you.
Until I figure out how to code an audio player into this post, please download it here:

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile, even though it’s breaking
When there are clouds, in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile, through your fear and sorrow
Smile, and there’ll be tomorrow
You’ll see the sun come shining through
For you
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear, may be ever so near,
That’s the time, you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile,
If you’ll just….
Feanne - Smile.mp3

Please enjoy these words while listening to the music:

This theme, hope, it’s for myself, for these shadowed times, bit it’s for you as well. My new friend affirms— we help others to heal, when we share our stories and our wounds. My own post today is a composite, semi-abstract body of words and pictures, but I hope to touch you and remind you, you are not alone!

I made this for myself the other week:

Turned out to be prophetic. I spent last week without an Internet connection at home. It was non-voluntary. Very frustrating, but also strangely liberating. Here are some of the things that I did, while I was helplessly offline:

• made drawings and jewellery
• designed journals
• sold journals and jewellery
• did not do my homework
• read five books instead—
  1. The Rainmaker by John Grisham
  2. The House of Mirt by Edith Wharton
  3. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  4. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  5. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  — the last two got me teary-eyed.
• befriended a stranger through my art
• had cozy conversation with my grandma
• stayed up til 4am with my mom and her friends in her house
• acquired five new books—
  1. Goddess at Home: Divine Interiors Inspired by Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, and Persephone
  2. Pattern Sourcebook: Chinese Style
  3. Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style
  4. The Yoga of Drawing: Uniting Body, Mind and Spirit in the Art of Drawing
  5. Art Nouveau: Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
• harassed the Internet company’s customer service representatives because of the unexplained delay in my Internet reconnection

I’d say reading is my vice. I read until I am dizzy, I tend to finish one book in one sitting. Fortunately, this vice of mine is socially accepted. :)

Offline, I felt isolated, as if my world grew small again. But it also gave me the chance to pause for a while, to just enjoy being in my room, lying down and doing nothing. Just being. I think that a tech-free day— one day in the week where I disconnect my phone and computer and interact face-to-face or read or touch leaves— would be good for me. It’s a very difficult thing to enforce on myself though. I do have this sort of invisible umbilical cord that links me to my computer. And I do love this splendid technology. But I must balance it, I must nourish the senses.

Doodling is a great activity… makes your creative mind stretch and stroll about:

Yes, I’m in a mushy sort of mood. Just spent a day with my boyfriend. He’s been away for three weeks, getting his hours done in aviation school. We had an oasis day after a long stretch of desert!

I wish you all warm hugs, oasis weekends, and spectacular music.

Love,
Feanne