Wednesday, January 27, 2010

art journal 8, art therapy; Death, saying goodbye

 My path that has taken me to the art journal began 30 years ago, when in grade 9, the counselor told us we must decide right then what we wanted to do for the rest of our lives.  Personally, this came as a shock.  I knew how young I was.  There was no way I could even begin to decide.  "Tough, pick something".  So, I said "OK, something to do with art or psychology.", while resenting the push. Little did I know that 30 years later, after much life experience in both art and psychology, I'd be thinking of Art Therapy.  
This was a difficult but cathartic page to do.  Death brings sadness, a desire to find a place to "put" all the feelings, an inner struggle for finding footing. Zeus, our lovely Belgian Shepherd, Collie X died of a ruptured tumor on his spleen.  No warnings.  One day good, next day, very very bad. 




Playing, romping, grumble-talking, wagging sweet boy.  That was our Zeus.



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