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Creativity always finds a way.Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-22543008178799024082022-12-10T22:22:00.002+01:002022-12-10T22:22:34.597+01:00It's official ! Build Creative Confidence. A holiday course in Spain.<p><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO20qxbMEhdX7KaFFkgoyOc47yYtW6lgIq7JxVzrTZPmB5JqzEeX4xpvmWMQS0J3NjnwNDUl7x98x6lXbmy8dExmk7rFFHg4Q24NNO1rYj32RoIRPpM7xmfpMqQgGNfcW8eH4FCTuImbyVoK-I8L6rde9X1fUM0liPvEo_RJywsebyuFHQpUYXFdo7/s2143/020%20(2)%20-%20Copy%20-%20Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="1917" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO20qxbMEhdX7KaFFkgoyOc47yYtW6lgIq7JxVzrTZPmB5JqzEeX4xpvmWMQS0J3NjnwNDUl7x98x6lXbmy8dExmk7rFFHg4Q24NNO1rYj32RoIRPpM7xmfpMqQgGNfcW8eH4FCTuImbyVoK-I8L6rde9X1fUM0liPvEo_RJywsebyuFHQpUYXFdo7/w396-h443/020%20(2)%20-%20Copy%20-%20Copy.jpg" width="396" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">It's official ! </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div></span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Here's the link to my course at the beautiful Cortijo Romero Center in Andalucia Spain - </p><p style="text-align: center;"> February 25th to March 4th 2023.</p><p> <span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;"><b>'Build Creative Confidence ' </b></span></p><p>With the guidance of the marketing manager, we've changed the wording of the Creativity week I shared with you recently, to fit more with their guidelines.</p><p>It will be a fun and fascinating week because <span style="color: #ff00fe;">with all the gifts <span style="font-size: large;">you</span> will bring with you</span>...co creation always happens, and we learn lots from each other as a group. There will be a max of 10 people I believe</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><i>I'm not going to be telling you what to do! I'm planning to open many doors for you by sharing forty years of experimenting, and keeping a drawing dairy for much of that time.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.cortijo-romero.co.uk/choose-your-course/courses/?type=&id=2734&name=Building+Creative+Confidence</span></p>Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-44615109024963985642022-11-29T21:13:00.001+01:002022-11-29T23:20:13.280+01:00A Course at Cortijo Romero. February 2023. <p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hi friends, apologies for many months of silence !! Lots been going on. I've missed y'all.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>After a fabulous month at Fundación Valparaiso artists residency in September, I came home to discover I'd been given the chance to </b><b>teach a weeks course on Creativity at Cortijo Romero here </b><b>in Spain. </b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>It's been a secret dream for years. The place is absolutely unique. Many lives have been changed by taking a worksop here. In 1996, my life was one of those. </b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>So here's my blurb. What do you think ?</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Any feedback very welcome.</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxKwj20TYok7qfcDrhLkSU03S1lDa7j55kWcfdTsIIk8kudKCRpjjyZA8_vNSlK5A7Av6E6TvaFxlojgCVlr61x1KCTT_5NDejrIuCRLfiTc3s_0JQ49VR-fd-VQss-8KO5eAi1pYncFozVJuzBBHViSCClqF1XS8Ih453O5pc1nKTMWBpAkjyyfq/s2048/024.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJxKwj20TYok7qfcDrhLkSU03S1lDa7j55kWcfdTsIIk8kudKCRpjjyZA8_vNSlK5A7Av6E6TvaFxlojgCVlr61x1KCTT_5NDejrIuCRLfiTc3s_0JQ49VR-fd-VQss-8KO5eAi1pYncFozVJuzBBHViSCClqF1XS8Ih453O5pc1nKTMWBpAkjyyfq/s320/024.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Celebrating Creativity - Alone and Together.</span></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15.9px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Explore Investigate and develop new ways of expressing yourself post Lockdown.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A discovery week exploring the fascinating world of creative tools to find your favourites then take home a strategy to make creativity a part of your daily life. </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12.7px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For busy people, procrastinators, for people who love to learn new skills and use new materials, and for those who've lost their spark.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">An opportunity to re connect with, befriend and co create with your inner artist, your inner photographer, your inner singer songwriter, musician, dancer, crafter, clown or any other creative part of yourself taking a siesta, or silenced or damaged by Covid.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.1px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Leave feeling seen and heard in a new way.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12.7px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In <span style="font-size: 12px;">the studio and in nature we'll experiment with </span>Suminagashi (Japanese paper marbling), alcohol inks on acetate ( for making original cards), printmaking with clay impregnated with natural found objects - bark leaves stones etc.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We'll make large and small brushes with sticks twigs and fibers to make exciting abstract marks and we'll use some spray paint on paper.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Using phone cameras we'll discover and record close up details in the beautiful Cortijo Romero gardens. These images will then inspire many art experiments. Looking in new ways always brings discovery. </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For those who wish, we can experiment making simple reels and slide shows with music using your phone pics.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Music poetry and storytelling will add rich colour to the week.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The retreat is planned to inspire your creative imagination by trying new combinations of materials to discover the new creative you.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There will be an introduction (a demo) to engraving on stone and drawing on wood.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #07061d; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"> </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">No previous experience with art or photography is needed for this creative adventure/retreat.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13.8px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Suitable for anybody wanting to unleash their creativity and find new ways to re connect with themselves and communicate lightheartedly with others. </p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Images speak louder than words.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14.3px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #4b4f58; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 28.1px;"><span face="Helvetica-Oblique" style="font-style: italic;">"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDXzfgmkVdmCEb3JsAOOjaTd8i4qSGnY4vGTfHP3d3pomO7t0tjWepk62wWJmZY_j5pXHok10TGTBSXgT8gWhEs6a94HHl1CCIMR6oyd8MbyHoILnkPSfAh29BtarEWNqfAYpcwq_FTrdGE-icXifgKdu1w6aq0TPh3Rsgt5EcyPdyI9yHsbsnsnl/s960/11201172_743104409135040_3479104321487235631_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEDXzfgmkVdmCEb3JsAOOjaTd8i4qSGnY4vGTfHP3d3pomO7t0tjWepk62wWJmZY_j5pXHok10TGTBSXgT8gWhEs6a94HHl1CCIMR6oyd8MbyHoILnkPSfAh29BtarEWNqfAYpcwq_FTrdGE-icXifgKdu1w6aq0TPh3Rsgt5EcyPdyI9yHsbsnsnl/s320/11201172_743104409135040_3479104321487235631_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; color: #4b4f58; font-family: Helvetica; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-60921622686031579652021-05-02T14:45:00.024+02:002021-06-07T18:22:51.713+02:00 New retreat starting Easter 2022<h1 style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Drawing
in Wisdom. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16pt;">Walking
new paths in the land of the Spanish mystics.</span></b><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"> </span></b></p>
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Good Grief Retreat with artist and writer Meg Robinson</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">An
unforgettable week with notebooks or sketchbooks and cameras in beautiful rural
Andalucía. Gentle or moderate walks – you choose. Silence. Laughter. Pool. Surrounded
by nature. Guided by Meg Robinson and the poetry of Rilke, Kabir, Kahlil
Gibran, Mary Oliver, John O’Donohue, David
Whyte and 2 Spanish mystics. We'll explore and nourish new ideas for a future
you never imagined possible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyt25HaUiVmLL6IzqBeRfvGByuvAGq9roZlN3DrWb_6i0AiE1yuGrAoCSh2QcYBYFIu09jgE9mckElpQMHinrGqF1BMEsqcBRpHesH_PmSDZwk5tt8gaGO1a8KtqxSGZm0wMEXZOjAUiM/s2049/011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2049" data-original-width="1722" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyt25HaUiVmLL6IzqBeRfvGByuvAGq9roZlN3DrWb_6i0AiE1yuGrAoCSh2QcYBYFIu09jgE9mckElpQMHinrGqF1BMEsqcBRpHesH_PmSDZwk5tt8gaGO1a8KtqxSGZm0wMEXZOjAUiM/s320/011.JPG" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Delicious</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> locally grown organic food. Pool. Stargazing. Charming simple country accommodation. Reconnecting inner and outer worlds. One to one retreats. Partners welcome to share
the beautiful environment and walk, or chill. 5</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">full days,
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willing to move forward towards a new life after bereavement.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Bereavement includes divorce/separation, miscarriage, abortion, loss of job,
loss of country, loss of faith. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Loss of joy, loss of direction or motivation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Loss of the life we knew before Covid.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVONKgjscFDIKXNN_70M9_gUWgGtJssBQzPrOS7B-haHPjG0qHsvu9_LcfMtvTtBGQO9LymLKA-djir446m_-C7cMN5X7Bdl1Sb7VdNemqdG-FRL-sdvOlR-qbJ9c0x9YxnRcOI-LlwU/s1520/20210214_141528_1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1520" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVONKgjscFDIKXNN_70M9_gUWgGtJssBQzPrOS7B-haHPjG0qHsvu9_LcfMtvTtBGQO9LymLKA-djir446m_-C7cMN5X7Bdl1Sb7VdNemqdG-FRL-sdvOlR-qbJ9c0x9YxnRcOI-LlwU/s320/20210214_141528_1.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2906" data-original-width="2466" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5g1GSnnc_gfK0Wbp6EVxBYtMyks5ns0qgncuAA2HqEoxPuTr9_0_7Dtp_uXPqolTMPqJpPwqdUOuWv8tJgKnl-P-MEc6ZXoRgbKaGAZ-LUpxgtV4QY_f0xHeZzQrJqyhxsMUuPgjoyY/s320/004.JPG" /></u></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Is this really for me?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Photographers - phone cameras are perfectly adequate. Note- makers and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">journalers whether occasional or compulsive, yes. Poetry lovers, definitely yes. Wisdom searchers, yes. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Walkers from amblers to explorers </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">all genuinely welcome. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">We have professional
mountain guides for super active partners of participants, and an exceptional masseurs for everybody! We also offer an exceptional healing experience with a local much loved young Spanish shaman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We're based in the </span>foothills<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of the Sierra Nevada mountains.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3pQ9we9zvAGPzK7Jp7zQjuNO2C3GDjr6FfyDGEbUy96cQLTv0kK1T9uqj49I8Ve6T_JKYaVltZikylPOH1HGzTkZkXQaP22YRSFuUrPHpXFcIXr09nwKZ6Lswfj8wRZM1Zu_Jz-7kOFQ/s2048/IMG_20210328_124342_161.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3pQ9we9zvAGPzK7Jp7zQjuNO2C3GDjr6FfyDGEbUy96cQLTv0kK1T9uqj49I8Ve6T_JKYaVltZikylPOH1HGzTkZkXQaP22YRSFuUrPHpXFcIXr09nwKZ6Lswfj8wRZM1Zu_Jz-7kOFQ/s320/IMG_20210328_124342_161.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">Does this resonate?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfRXGd4tat3-KqBbGBTft6bUiLv4Zt_eV55W1Uhy6Kh9RbpFxni667LtdYd_tyKal-Lt1YUMFn_zT14jlin1zIJOke9ojnlajWedmFnuXYurTF7LRX7FHWOyObSTghaFu-4S3_x7gSb8/s1132/20201026_222456_1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1132" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsfRXGd4tat3-KqBbGBTft6bUiLv4Zt_eV55W1Uhy6Kh9RbpFxni667LtdYd_tyKal-Lt1YUMFn_zT14jlin1zIJOke9ojnlajWedmFnuXYurTF7LRX7FHWOyObSTghaFu-4S3_x7gSb8/w355-h316/20201026_222456_1.png" width="355" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">If you are willing to explore new </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">parts of yourself, experience an awesome dawn
and dusk walk with camera, be silent sometimes, soak in wisdom poems as a new
kind of inner GPS, and much more, this holiday retreat is a way of creating a renewed sense of life purpose by resetting
the inner compass</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQv9Axr1_inswLx-9_fXp7rlOvD17CibtzpmKNskGDAD3gdutoqJLcVARTZFBToupaH-uHnWInui03lmyCBvfAtTCmLq4810bP1yfdJtVTIQmhWdyW6OCD9ynC07lL-HbNDGOuolbKuw/s1512/20191026_192043_1.png" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1512" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMQv9Axr1_inswLx-9_fXp7rlOvD17CibtzpmKNskGDAD3gdutoqJLcVARTZFBToupaH-uHnWInui03lmyCBvfAtTCmLq4810bP1yfdJtVTIQmhWdyW6OCD9ynC07lL-HbNDGOuolbKuw/w500-h280/20191026_192043_1.png" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meg Robinson has been offering Good Grief Retreats since 2003. She has a lifetime's commitment to helping others help themselves become more of their full potential through creativity, walking, and playful inner exploring.</span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJeld7oZlje8TpbVaKe3eGW66NMz_xInZVPcKeb6-uFemQyLi5JrvNQ74QJZ4krU74p947xcIj8Ehv-jvyAIylW1mEZfRp6bODtCNJvEE6oFuiKbdcuAKeckeIq1kK3NMC48Sk3SNKMXo/s3648/004.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJeld7oZlje8TpbVaKe3eGW66NMz_xInZVPcKeb6-uFemQyLi5JrvNQ74QJZ4krU74p947xcIj8Ehv-jvyAIylW1mEZfRp6bODtCNJvEE6oFuiKbdcuAKeckeIq1kK3NMC48Sk3SNKMXo/s320/004.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">There will be an online Zoom </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">preliminary</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> weekend course as a taster.</span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Much more info to follow. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrPip0s5Ol3zDQ9ix7q75TqsBxAslaaDsTGN_-vsVljwdoL5ZGl9_N_xefV8VIl5uNLXi1yjy-kwpdnla96oRZ8DGHhaFx_23indQN5kuDGGu6AuV-kV96rzpBvb7FWmkxPnsA3QM3Vk/s892/20190721_214621_1+%25281%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtrPip0s5Ol3zDQ9ix7q75TqsBxAslaaDsTGN_-vsVljwdoL5ZGl9_N_xefV8VIl5uNLXi1yjy-kwpdnla96oRZ8DGHhaFx_23indQN5kuDGGu6AuV-kV96rzpBvb7FWmkxPnsA3QM3Vk/s320/20190721_214621_1+%25281%2529.png" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLW2fq7tJQXxKVgIpH5bC_Fut1B7gXUInCvauB4P2W80apJl5l73Rgcthiobzhtz8D-TKp5kw8hWye8lB0n6BcjcIqmPkbtks_gvct24gp7M1q_1M5ifpSx-M9amLcAz7I9e63zpDMEMc/s1920/IMG_1609514994273_1+%25281%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLW2fq7tJQXxKVgIpH5bC_Fut1B7gXUInCvauB4P2W80apJl5l73Rgcthiobzhtz8D-TKp5kw8hWye8lB0n6BcjcIqmPkbtks_gvct24gp7M1q_1M5ifpSx-M9amLcAz7I9e63zpDMEMc/s320/IMG_1609514994273_1+%25281%2529.png" /></a></div><br /><p>
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Goodbye February. Hello March 2020. </div>
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Hand washing month, and Lent.</div>
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Two years ago, at a residential workshop, I saw how fast a virus can travel. In 12 hours more than three quarters of the group were writhing in the loo. </div>
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Creativity. What's going on in the studio? Not very much, yet.</div>
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I'm in limbo. In that 'liminal stage' once again. That means being ' in between ' what has been created in January and February ( in my head heart and studio), and what's about to come next.</div>
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Drawings have been on pause these past two months. Just one arrived.</div>
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I'm trusting the 6th sense more and more. </div>
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Appreciating everything more and more.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art play with an 8 year old Siberian girl in Lithuania 2018.</td></tr>
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Latvia.<br />
An artists residency (I hope) in August 2020, in a town called Aizpute.<br />
This is where many of my Jewish ancestors lived, I think in the 1800's.<br />
Another DNA test is in the post.<br />
Hoping, longing to find actual names of Latvian ancestors.<br />
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Buzzing with excitement as I search for flights.<br />
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My inner compass is definitely pointing towards the Baltic again.</div>
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It's that inner knowing I can't argue with. Gotta go.</div>
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There's so much exciting stuff to share with you. So many inspiring stories to tell. But, I know you live busy lives. So my intention is to keep all my posts short now, and to encourage your creativity as much with the images as with words.<br />
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How about we all wash our hand 20 times a day and apply Deepak Chopra's sensible advice on keeping clear of the virus? Then we can allow new ideas to flood our hearts and minds. New creative ideas which connect us to our highest potential. Creativity and fear do not gel. We all owe it to ourselves to be the best we can be, whatever creative path we follow. We are living in challenging times.<br />
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So, I'm offering new retreats.<br />
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Do you want to meet your most creative self this summer? Tame your inner critic? Reset your inner compass. Rest and recharge in awesome nature close to mountains, a river, the sea. Transform your procrastination into a flow of creativity. Explore your shamanic self, deepen your spiritual connection... eat organic food, start and end each day with sacred music?<br />
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'Every great change is preceded by chaos. The unknown is the only place where there is creativity.'</div>
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Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-89487761329423318392019-11-21T22:18:00.002+01:002021-05-02T13:29:10.418+02:00Art Adventures - a new way to Retreat.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After 12 years running creative retreats at healingartjourneys.com, then a sabbatical pause, the new retreats have arrived as naturally as spring following winter.<br />
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The Retreats will now be Art Adventures for groups of up to 4.<br />
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3 Retreats will be for solo adventurers.<br />
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An Art Adventure Retreat is a sure way to break down limiting ideas and transform old patterns to find exciting new ways to develop your creative potential.<br />
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The object of a retreat is usually to take time out to re-connect with our non busy self. To get clarity about what matters most to us. To allow ourselves space and time to play with life changing ideas .<br />
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A guided Art Adventure Retreat offers a wake up, shake up call to start being creative in a brand new way.<br />
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Are you sick of being stuck in a rut? Tired of making the same kind of art, bored taking the same kind of photos, disheartened by writing in the same 'style.'<br />
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During an Art Adventure Retreat you will discover new creative skills, experience a new sense of self, and have fun in the process!.<br />
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'What you risk reveals what you value.'</div>
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Jeanette Winterson.</div>
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wooden yurt or a charming casita ( cottage) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada
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Art Adventure Retreats 2020 in April May June September October November. </div>
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Surprise and delight yourself by doing everything familiar differently.<br />
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printmaking, drawing with found objects, playing</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">with alcohol inks and much more. </span></div>
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3<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">. Appreciating Spain's Golden Age: an Interfaith Retreat including making simple sacred art, Sephardic and Sufi music , story telling, a celebration of interfaith .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"> Learning from each other’s beliefs traditions and customs. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">For anybody loving the metaphysical. A real, delightful spiritual recharge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">1.Unblocking what's keeping you small, allowing ideas for a fulfilling creative
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Possibly more than any other book ever, Jewish Grigoty Kanovich's story of his family
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to me so vividly, it's almost like being a fly on the wall in somebody's
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Some of these people could actually be my relations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shtlel Love Song is a book of
521 pages. I'm now on page 449. The Russians
have taken over the town. It's 1940. I can hardly bear to read what happens
next. But I do.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I came here to make a pilgrimage
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Then, when that felt complete, day by day as I learned of the
countries relatively recent horrific history, I began to realise it was
not just the Jews who’d suffered terribly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The stories I've heard were
from priests, nuns, Jews living here and in Moscow and Palestine. Hotel receptionists, cafe owners, a Russian
pharmacist, a Lithuanian photographer turned organic farmer. All paint a
picture of a country that has been reinventing itself over the last 24
years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Yes. I became a researcher. An investigator of what lies behind what we see. As you have have guessed, I love to hear other people's stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">350.000 Lithuanians were exiled to Siberia to ‘work for’ the
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These summer months have been all about up- rooting, re routing and reinventing my inner artist, and other bits of me too it seems. I didn't ask for this, but it happened.</div>
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By the end of August I'd decided I was a visual story teller. No longer an artist who has solo or group exhibitions . </div>
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This summer's colors were all about copper, burnt sienna, gold, black and a little turquoise. About spray paint. Paper cutting. Lino printing ( not too successful but exciting), and drawing with a white acrylic pen.</div>
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So, just as my Jewish ancestors had traveled for generations, I ventured out into the unknown, hoping to find something I couldn't quite name. </div>
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The summer started with losing my iPad in Malaga airport. As a result, I met three (human) angels. One German, one Lithuanian, one Moroccan.</div>
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Daily adventures followed, many involved getting lost and making new friends.</div>
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The sun shone. It rained frequently. I ate lots of nuts, loved the beetroot soup, and cooked buckwheat porridge like a local.</div>
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When I arrived at Malaga airport, I wanted to get right back on the next plane to Tallinn. The urge was huge! But my friend was waiting for me, so I didn't.</div>
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Actually there were two lovely men. How could I forget ?</div>
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<i> Next summer.</i> The whispering voice is loud. Go back next summer. <i>Just do it it ,</i> <i>we'll work out the details. </i></div>
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The details certainly took their own time and course to unfold this summer. </div>
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Every door that wouldn't open led to something infinitely more interesting than anything I could ever have imagined.</div>
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I love sharing my life and art with y'all. Thank you Ana in the US and everybody else for checking in. I'd love if you'd leave a comment and say where you live.</div>
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From May to September, Estonia dominated my thoughts.</div>
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My dear friend Ken made my new art website. He did all the techi bits and being an artist photographer/ mountaineer, he added many great ideas. I needed the new website to apply for artists residencies. </div>
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Finland was also a possible stopping place as well as the Baltic islands off the Estonian coast. </div>
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I said a silent sorry to Greta and the Planet for not traveling by train and bus. I could have, all the way from Spain. But my right leg developed sciatica, so buses were definitely not going to be possible.</div>
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In Vilnius, I stayed in a beautiful art and book filled historic house where 4 generations of artists had lived.</div>
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The surviving family members were granddaughter Bea (40 something), a super talented graphic designer. Delightfully stylish, Bea , with her beloved dog, seemed to be always rushing somewhere. </div>
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Eva, her mother, was my age. Eva did not rush. A serious quiet intellectual, I soon discovered she was a hugely gifted photographer and painter. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">And there was hers, on the kitchen table. A beautiful intelligent face, framed, with a candle on either side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">There he sat, sharing her every single meal. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">There he'd dined all his life. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">He'd opened these doors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Celebrated her every birthday until
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">On some level, I think I kind of pretended he was mine for the week. I borrowed him. I loved him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It's a fascinating small Independent book store close to the museum.<br />
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Thank you Miriam Roser Stella Kaisa and Charlotte for your friendship and help.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">So I sat outside my gate </span><span style="text-align: left;">this evening</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">and watched the sun set, enjoying the exquisite ambient sounds all around, especially the happy blackbird in the old walnut tree right above me. I had my first lesson in animation this evening.</span></div>
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Will you email me your little demo I asked my extremely talented teacher? She paused. I know you she said, you'll want to put it on Facebook. Humm! I'll need to edit it she decided. We laughed.<br />
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Actually I was thinking of sharing it here, but I haven't succeeded.<br />
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I've been given homework. Approximately 62 drawings and some recordings of ambient sounds for next week. That's fine. That's the nature of animation, masses of drawings with small changes. The little film will last 20 seconds ! I've wanted to make animated films all my life.<br />
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In the next blog you'll see the outcome. In the meantime, here's the reason I've been quiet for the last however many weeks - drum roll - introducing my brand new website.<br />
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Back to the present moment. Adventures in Andalucia.. Living with chickens (and foxes).</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Yesterday at 11am,</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> tiny 87 year old neighbor Louisa was on the other side of the fence, mostly hidden by the jasmin bush. She witness the whole happening. She doesn't miss a thing. Her memory is better than mine. She loves my chickens. She's chicken savvy. She pokes little bits of cut up lettuce though the fence for them every morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Louisa's stoical about the dog bite that happened on Saturday. Her 60 year old daughter cried when she told me the story. The bandage on her left leg is pristine white. She's wonderfully cared for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Madre mia ! Margarita’s hen flew over the fence and perched
on her shoulder. Dios mio she didn’t want to get down! No puedo creerlo ! They gazed into each others eyes. Margarita started talking to
her. It looked like the hen was listening and telling her something too ! Madre mia de mi vida, nunca, jamas he visto algo asi ! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">My version : The characterful speckled hen flew 4 feet onto the
wire fence. She wobbled there (as if on a tightrope), then cautiously walked
onto my outstretched arm. She’s</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">done
this once before. From there she hopped onto my shoulder and </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">gazed into my eyes. Some strange but friendly noises continued for
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I have never, ever seen anything like this in my whole life said elderly Louisa. We both laughed a lot. I had never ever heard her laugh before. </span></div>
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I've spent a week writing my new Artists Statement. Here's the background.<br />
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It's been hard because I've always felt art is beyond words.<br />
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I have themes and colors which change over the years. The driving energy which comes into each drawing arrives of its own accord.<br />
I just have to 'clear a space' (remove all distractions) and allow it to flow.<br />
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My hope is you'll find something of your own fascinating life story in my drawings and paintings. Something uplifting. Something revealing. Something healing.<br />
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How did it all start?<br />
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Many teachers say that what we loved to do as a child colors almost everything in later life. And if we ignore these first passions, well...burnout depression and serious disappointment can take root.<br />
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I started drawing aged three, and have hardly stopped ever since.<br />
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In the first small 'autobiographical' wax crayon drawings, I’m a smiling little nurse in a Scottish hospital ward, surrounded by sick ladies glued to their beds. Many of these patients were ladies of the night. Yes, it was the STD ward. Pre aids and just after penicillin became available, these ladies at least had a chance to survive. I was taken to visit the ward every Sunday by my 'mother' their doctor. and their lay preacher.<br />
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Adopted by two pioneering women doctors, I was told to be proud of my ‘half’ Jewish heritage. The other half of me is Irish Dutch.<br />
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My recent art has unfolded in ‘chapters.’<br />
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*Nomadic years - paintings from Alaska, New Mexico, Bolivia , Peru, Spain. 1998- 2014<br />
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*Expressive arts images - healing cancer 2015 -2017.<br />
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*Belalcázar Monastery – drawings inspired by research into Spain’s Golden Age -1492, -Sephardic Jewish ancestors. 2016- 2018.<br />
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*Jewish ancestors - drawing and digital images inspired by discovering long lost Lithuanian grandparents. 2018 – .<br />
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*Sketches and life drawings 1998 – 2019.<br />
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My art is serious and I guess I am too, but humour and playfulness always have a way of slipping into my life. Thank God !<br />
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My new digital drawings are all about playing with line and colour. Using these techniques I’ve come to understand, use, and share extraordinary healing aspects of art.<br />
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In drawing, I usually start by mark making. Then quickly, inevitably, create chaos. Gradually and mindfully, I find ways to access that energy which doesn’t care about the outcome of the image.<br />
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Sacred world music helps this happen, especially the voice of Hildegard Von Bingen. <br />
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In 1996, I deleted the words good bad should and ought from my vocabulary.<br />
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My life instantly changed for the better. How?<br />
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My 6th sense kind of got activated. My intuition became super strong and synchronicities started appearing everywhere.<br />
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In 2006 I started to write a travel memoir -Drawn by a Star - it was based on my second visit to Patagonia.<br />
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'Drawn by a Star' seems to sum up this mysterious energy. It's a voiceless voices which guides my every move. It's a voice I cannot ever argue with.<br />
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Oftentimes the drawing/painting chaos lasts days or weeks or months.<br />
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Then suddenly, something amazing happens. Characters appear - timeless stories emerge.<br />
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People say they see aspects of themselves in my drawings - parts they don’t usually notice or talk to.<br />
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Rafael, The Fauves , Egon Schiele ,Toulouse Lautrec and Scottish friend the late John Bellamy’s drawings were early inspirations.<br />
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I spent 6 years passionately studying art. First at St Martin’s Art School in London then at Edinburgh College Art College.<br />
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22 years ago equally passionately, I began the process of unlearning.<br />
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Exploring, and using colour in new ways. A adventure into colour making. - destination unknown. For passionate hobby artists and professionals.<br />
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Whatever kind of art you make at the moment, the pledge is that you will go away inspired to be braver, more curios, bolder, risk taking , and with your inner critic quietened.<br />
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I will teach some basic drawing and colour mixing skills, the rest will be playing with a wonderful variety of materials and techniques, some in the studio others in nature.<br />
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Lithuanian Jews or 'Litvaks ' are Jews born in Lithuanian, Belarus, Latvia, two north eastern regions of Poland, and some border areas of Russia and Ukraine . Today very few remain. Those who escaped in 1941 mostly fled to Russia. My great grandfather Harry Rubin immigrated to Canada around 1910.<br />
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Thanks to the DNA test I'm here to discover my Litvak ancestry, in the landscape, in the collective memory, and in my soul.<br />
My mountaineer friend Ken immediately called my journey to Lithuania a Pilgrimage. And that's what it's been, all six weeks, and not a single blister.<br />
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The pilgrimage started in Gdansk in July, drifted over the Polish border to a monastery near Kaunas , and meandered down to the south west of Lithuania to my great grandfathers village, Seirijai.<br />
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This village was the original goal of my 'pilgrimage.'<br />
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I believed my fathers family had escaped from Seirijai on foot to Poland (then immigrated to the US), but it turned out in 1906, having had some money, they took a train to Hamburg .<br />
From there they boarded a boat for the 3 week journey to Montreal, not NY. Some of the family made their way to Scotland. My pilgrimage was full of surprises.<br />
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Lithuania is a flat densely forested country. It is a land of apple trees, blueberries , mushrooms, no mountains .<br />
They've only had their independence from Soviet domination since 1990.<br />
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After many adventures and much research in Vilnius, previously known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania , I arrived here in Druskininkai.<br />
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That 130km journey is a book in itself! More later about meeting the new Jewish community in a<br />
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Then yesterday, August 13th, with a Lithuania guide, I visited Kapciamiestis where my great<br />
great-grandparents Wolf and Gritl Rubin lived in 1870.<br />
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It was beautiful, so charming , so almost fairytale otherworldly, I immediately, finally knew where I've come from. My roots come from this soil.<br />
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Thanks to a DNA test two years ago, I finally discovered where my never met, never known birth father came from -<br />
Info from 2nd and3rd cousins (thanks to the DAA test ), gave me the names of my great grandparents, the name of two villages, and a calling to find out more.<br />
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It feels that my pilgrimage to this beautiful country is complete.<br />
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I've found what I didn't know I was searching for . I've found in my innermost heart a sense of familiarity that is unquestionable. The village of Kapciamiestis was almost destroyed during World War 11, but essence cannot be destroyed...and the dreams and hopes of my beloved ancestors who lived here are in my genes, and mysteriously , I feel I've just crosssed a threshold.<br />
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I'm certain John O'Donohue and David Whyte have poems which express this feeling exquisitely.<br />
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Dear loyal multinational followers,<br />
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Thank you for keeping on visiting while I've been silent for so many weeks.<br />
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How does anybody manage a daily blog??<br />
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I couldn't. At the moment I've got kittens and chickens and a blind cockerel to feed, as well as drawings to draw, adventures to live, and so much more.<br />
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Since starting the blog, thousands of you in the US have visited (so love these statistics), and more than five thousand Russians and Ukrainians have looked at my paintings here.<br />
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Why so many visitors from Russia? I'm thinking you must be 'resonating' with something in my art , but I doubt many of you are reading the posts. Of course I could be wrong.<br />
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I've just discovered my Jewish father's ancestors came from your countries - Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and also Poland. What a surprise. Oh bliss and double joy to know this at last!<br />
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All my life I'd had a suspicion about Poland. Maybe it was just poetic wishful thinking and a need to pin my dad somewhere on the world map? I'd always imagined he'd escaped from a Polish concentration camp. Maybe Auschwitz?<br />
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Because I was adopted as a baby - and have always had an overactive imagination.<br />
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Every day I wake now with a wild quiet curiosity. At last I know where I've 'come from.' But it's not quite that simple.<br />
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These super brave ancestors fled to the US between 1850 and 1919.<br />
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Exuberant Drum roll...<br />
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on the 14th of July I'm leaving Spain for a 6 week solo 'pilgrimage' to walk on the land of my Jewish ancestors.<br />
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My journey starts in Gdansk, Poland, then moves to Vilnius in Lithuania, then down to the south east corner of Lithuania to the village of Seirijai. Then where ? I don't know. Poland, Belarus , Lativa , Siberia?<br />
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So far, I have just one Lithuanian village, just one man - a possible great grandfather or great uncle - and just one route to explore - my ancestors escape route to freedom..<br />
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This minimal info has inspired these drawings.<br />
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But...what if I only last one week in Gdansk and have to come straight back to Malaga?<br />
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No, I will not get sick or have an accident, or ... anything like that. I'm determined to heal the new medical problem before I go. <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Si señor !</span><br />
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Not being able to speak the language is a real 'what if' that needs taming.<br />
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Yes, I have heard about the new translator app, but...<br />
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Chill Meg. When intuition becomes the inner compass, as it has already, anything can happen.<br />
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Think positive Margarita and don't depend in electronic gadgets, depend on faith. Si senor.<br />
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I promise I'll share the highlights of this adventure.<br />
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Another drum roll... I just discovered : in about 1840 in Seirijai there lived a certain Rabbi Rabinson and a man called David Robinzon. Gasp. Relations?<br />
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Lithuania has the fastest Internet connection in the world, and the highest suicide rate in Europe among young men. Two facts which may or may not be useful. Weird what comes up when you start researching anything.<br />
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Meanwhile, I'm loving drawing my way into this mysterious story.<br />
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Lithuania. Big sigh. I feel compelled to walk on the land of my ancestors, and I hope to find, if at all possible, the real name of my never known, never met, Jewish farther.<br />
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All I have are his initials, L.R.<br />
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How do I know this? Well... that's a long story I'm not quite ready to share yet, except to say...<br />
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my father changed his name on arriving in Ireland in 1944. L.R became Leslie Robinson.<br />
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Apparently, most Jewish refugees changed their names but kept their initials when they arrived in a new land.<br />
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Because of his mysterious identity, and because my Irish mother wasn't ' allowed' to keep me, I was an orphan before I was born.<br />
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My life didn't start off brilliantly, but there have been many, many brilliant episodes ever since, and they're ongoing.<br />
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I don't know if my birth mother's life was so blessed. When I found her 30 years ago, she didn't have anything kind to say about my dad.<br />
Hers was a terrible but common story of an Irish girl not allowed to keep her baby.<br />
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If I can find a name for my dad, I'll be ecstatic.<br />
It's the missing piece of this beautiful multicolored jigsaw.<br />
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And if I can't, life will still be beautiful.<br />
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Thank you Ancestry.com for bringing Lithuania, Russia and Poland - and 3 brand new cousins- quietly into my life.<br />
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How amazing. All I had to do was spit into a tiny test tube two years ago -<br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Katherine Arden is one of this new breed. </span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">I'm reading her magical book The Bear and The Nightingale, right now. </span></div>
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It seems my never met, never known Jewish father's great grandfather was a body guard/ groomsman to Czar Nicholas. Thank you ancestry. com for this info. Oh for some photos of them all, the absent men in my life!<br />
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Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-73425685122702625072017-10-19T22:15:00.002+02:002021-05-02T13:29:11.909+02:00Don Jose Maria did a good job.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At the hospital the charming elderly surgeon , Don Jose Maria, asked me if I
needed help getting onto the operating table.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">It's a mark of respect to call a doctor in Spain 'Don - whateverhisfirstname -is. </span><br />
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'Ha,' I said. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'No
thanks, with my 2 new hips I can do this easily now.'<br />
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We’d exchanged a few
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'Did you get the new hips here or in England,'
he asked seriously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> '</span>Here,' I said.<br />
'Aha. ' he
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I’m
Irish I said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Can I keep them?'</div>
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It was so great to be in the hands of a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gentle doctor with humour. This won’t take long
he reassured me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 6 hour wait was immediately
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The first two waiting hours were spent in the tiny hospital chapel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’ll be quiet there I said to my
friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was, and we both did
some meditation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d already done my 20
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I was interrupted by a piercing thought. Better charge my phone. Another
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I then showed my friend the wonderful large new cookery book
called Kaucasis that I’d packed in my ‘going to hospital’ little ethnic
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Fab brill photos and amazing seasonal recipes delighted us
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We sat side by side and revelled in the deliciousness of
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shared<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>excitement of the probability <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of trying new recipes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Marie Carmen arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I nipped over, yes I can nip now, and apologised for the disappointment.<br />
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to see him, and ligh a candle in the chaple. She’s afraid he’s going to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he may. I tell her I’m
here to have the little implant in my chest removed, it was where the chemo was
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My friend leaves to collect her young son from school. I'm completly fine about this.<br />
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I’m sitting enjoying observing life in the day ward, but also remembering
what it was like being hooked up to chemo 29 months ago, when all of a
sudden a terrible cold came over my body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Jezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Oh NO, how could this have happened? </div>
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I don't remember blowing out the candles after<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>doing my ‘Jane Meditation’ this morning <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in my rented farmhouse - here in Spain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The house could already have burned to the ground.Then what would I do?</span></div>
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The young male nurse had taken my blood pressure just five
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That translates as...just as well. Now it was probably sky high.<br />
I was a mess inside. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brain freeze and dollops of how cold I
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called my policeman landlord, but forget to tell him
where the spare set of keys are hidden.<br />
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Don’t worry he said super calm and lovley as ever. I’ll go now, and
if necessary I’ll take the screws off the back door and get in that way.<br />
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the only remaining patient, and I’m still sitting hooked up to my drip and I’m
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I now have three blankets
wrapped around my body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an
extremely <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>odd feeling being alone in an
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minutes, well may it was just three.<br />
The day ward closes at 2 .30 when the surgeon
go off to eat, so I’ll probably be done at about 4 she says.<br />
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grudge a surgeon a siesta, but I got that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It's not as easy as he thought it would be. Remember that children's story of pulling the turnip out of the ground? Bit like that. The little metal implant seemed to have grown roots.<br />
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Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-25622106186417089362017-10-09T22:33:00.000+02:002021-05-02T13:29:12.023+02:00 Autumn whispers in the early morning.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello dear friends,<br />
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Here are 4 things I'd love to share with you about my summer in Spain.<br />
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Note to self. Keep it short Meg, and colourful. People don't have time to read screeds, especially on phone!<br />
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So... <br />
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1. Milestones in my recovery.<br />
2. New paintings.<br />
3. New horizons and the message we were born to share.<br />
4. The miracle of the mad dog.<br />
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Autumn whispers around the farmhuse and the star filled nights are getting longer. In the early morning, before swimming, I love to walk in the glistening dew through the orange and lemon trees to greet my chicken family. They're waiting to be set free to lay their eggs and play in the orchard.<br />
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.July and August were all about art-making, writing, recovery from the hip operation and waiting for the next all clear from the oncologist. <br />
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Home was the ‘Blue Hideaway House, near Comares, inland from Malaga, Spain. You can't see the swimming pool in this pic, but it was just about 15 paces from my bed !<br />
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In August I spent two weeks at the 300 year old farmhouse near Colmenar with my beloved 'soul daughter.' It was hot. Very hot.<br />
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The summer routine flowed seamlessly.<br />
I loved the vigorous swimming exercises twice a day.<br />
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I loved the evening hikes to the pine forest, passing the 400 goats on their way home. I’d stagger with crutches passing the mulberry tree to the top of the hill where a pretty little white house stood on the brow of the hill. It was home to a pack of invisible dogs who lived
without and owner.<br />
They sky was often deep orange by the time I arrived. I would
assess my walking progress by observing how lopsided my shadow was. I’d try to be my own physio. Shoulders back Meg,
straighten the left foot etc., etc.<br />
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I loved having my drawing table set up and usable all day long. The drawing and new themes flowed.<br />
I loved byung simple food form the only small ship in the village, and stocking up on veggies from to Tuesday organic market down the mountain. <br />
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From the little table beside my swimming pool, I could eat breakfast lunch and supper looking out towards my evenings goal. The first time I managed to walk to the white house was a real hallelujah moment. A milestone. Summer brought halleluiah moments and milestones every week. 5 weeks ago I discarded both crutches.<br />
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On Monday 31st July in the supermarket, at 1.30, standing beside the lentils, my phone rang. I knew who it would be, I was expecting the call. My oncologist called to give me the good news I was all clear again. 26 months in remission. <br />
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A few hot tears of relief sprang from my eyes, then I went back into no man’s land. A friend suggested it was survivor guilt. I think it was. The months wait for the news had been very hard. Long medical story not worth sharing.<br />
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During the summer there were three local fiestas, each higlighted by the tradioal music called Los Veridales. This kind of music predates Flamenco, and is only found in Malaga province. It symbolises – for me- history, joie de vivre, being 100% on the world in the moment and the power of music to join people together. It touches the soul. Wonderful beyond words.<br />
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In September I returned to Tablones, where I’ll be renting this friendly house with chickens, swimming pool, and mini orchard for the next 10 months. Then , who knows ??<br />
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First of all, there's been the fun of arrangeing of the kitchen, my food laboratory.<br />
I'm buying 98% organic and only seaonsal produce. Eating really healthy and locally is imperative for me now. <br />
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Then the delight in organising of my small studio. <br />
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Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-59637350759637063282017-08-26T23:42:00.000+02:002021-05-02T13:29:12.216+02:00Gratitude<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
What I’m especially grateful for today:<br />
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Finding I have a 3rd cousin in the US. This means we have the same great great grandparents on my Jewish father's side.<br />
Appearently he was one of the Tzar's bodyguards. How fascinating is that?<br />
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My dear friend Claire is still in a coma. She's peaceful in her Granada hospital bed.<br />
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My daughter in law loved her three weeks late birthday chocolates, and my grandchildren helped her eat them all.<br />
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The small white van that reversed into me yesterday in a narrow lane in the village did no more harm than give me two red bruised knees.<br />
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I finally understand 90% of my writing is just getting clear.<br />
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I'm grateful for hours spent with paint and pastels messing till the emerging stranger appears, and in a flash of recognition becomes family, and greets me. This is a real prodigal son/daughter moment. A meeting of hearts. Magical. Mysterious.Thrilling.<br />
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This happened today. <br />
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Drawn by a Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07280976129835823995noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926954457046202697.post-51241822497886182432017-08-01T11:33:00.001+02:002021-05-02T13:29:12.298+02:00The Bejewelled Baker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The bejewelled baker, a fiesty blond, and a fishmonger -summer adventures in Andalucia.<br />
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My exploring today wasn’t nearly as intrepid as yesterdays with you Cathy, for many reasons. One being - I forgot the map!<br />
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I headed for Cutar where some interesting Danish artists have an arty B&B. I wanted to check out it out , and I'd liked the look of their online paintings. Missing the turning, I found myself in Olias , miles away in the direction of Malaga.<br />
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Olias was gearing up for their anual fiesta weekend.<br />
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Driving into the small village I immediately spotted a bar/restaurant. It was almost lunchtime, so I pulled over and parked my car, not brilliantly I admit, but ok. I got out, felt hungry, smelled pork, and breathed in the hot dusty air. <br />
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At the very same moment the fish man arrived from the opposite direction. He parked abreast of me, blocking the road. Then the bread van arrived and parked behind me. Roadblock.<br />
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A group of local women were waiting for both vans. They sat on a low wall , probabaly just like their mothers and grandothers had done for decades.<br />
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Behind them, stunning views of rolling hillsides
were dotted with ancient olive trees, the dry soil a rich terracotta
colour. To their left , the Mediterranean stretched way up the
coast into the pale distance, and way down passed the busy port of Malaga. On a clear day you would be seeing right across to
Morocco. Today wasn't clear enough.</div>
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One of the village women, about 55, the alfa female, wore a tight white mini lacy cotton dress, exposing strong shoulders. Sexy and defiant her short dyed blond hair was pulled into a small ponytail. This needed to grow it a tad longer to give the full youthful effect I thought.<br />
<br />
She was a don't mess with me lady. A person with power. Funny how you can sense these things instantly. <br />
<br />
She looked me up and down slowly. I'd become part of the traffic jam. Part of her world for a few moments.<br />
<br />
She scanned me. Labelled me? <br />
<br />
Then she noticed the crutch. <br />
Was that a hint of a smile?<br />
<br />
A car came up behind mine and of course couldn’t pass. The fish van would have to move, but nobody was in a hurry. There were lots of loud jokes from the ladies, and finally the young fishmonger jumped in his van, grinned at me, and dashed off to stop again and block the road at the next blind corner!<br />
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The ladies mooched over to the grinning middle aged weather-beaten bread man who was wearing at least 10 multi-coloured bead necklaces, each with a flimsy plastic cross dangling from the bottom of it. His open shirt exposed a small clump of curly grey hair.<br />
<br />
An alfa male, <i>sin duda</i> (without doubt). Full of life energy.<br />
<br />
After buying her bread the blond lady asked for her toilet rolls and paper napkins. The bread man considered bringing these important items a huge favour, and their joking reached decibels. The goods were sitting on his passenger seat – he had no room for anything else I think he was saying!.<br />
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‘What d’ you want,’ he then asked me abruptly. ‘What have you got I.’ asked.<br />
<br />
‘Bread!’ he said laughing louder than ever.<br />
<br />
The ladies didn’t laugh.<br />
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‘Jajajaja, hombre,’ I said, ‘no soy totalmente tonta !!’ (Hey pal , I’m not completely stupid!).<br />
<br />
‘MUY BIEN,’ shouted the rubia ( the blond), she was almost clapping, her arms full of toilet rolls napkins ,bread and fish.<br />
<br />
‘You tell him matey,’ she said, or something like that.<br />
<br />
I think the blond and the bread man have history.<br />
<br />
So love my life Spain.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A painting by Picasso I've never seen called Campesinos ( country folk).</td></tr>
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