Art For Healing Lunch

I took the day off because I knew I would be emotional after gathering with the other ladies from the program. That was smart because I stayed for 1 1/2 hours and it was probably 5 minutes too long. Healthy food tho - no water in sight. What is it with these Canberrans? They don't seem to know that water is the elixir of life. Anyway an Indigenous lady "Betty" kept going back to my piece and looking at it. Later when she found out that I did the painting we talked about how she felt about it. She said she had to keep pulling herself back from touching it. She kept saying that all through the conversation. The red ink is still not dried which is unusual, but maybe that's what the painting needs to be for now. It will be interesting to see when it actually dries and what sort of head space I am in at that time. The hardest part of that painting was dropping the red ink onto the canvas. It was like solid energy came from deep inside of me and disseminated in to the air around me. On the way home I saw the gorgeous Magnolia tree and whiped in for a quick portrait with the new Irlen lenses on. Ahhh its a beautiful world with the glasses on.