The theme for this month in our photography group was Spring. These are my photos taken in my back garden.
This next photo is actually two photos taken one after the other and edited together. I had to zoom in a bit on the right to be able to capture the rainbow. I wanted to show a typical Spring day with the sky either side of the tree. Nice day on the left. Not so good on the right.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
Depression is a liar. It tells you that you’re not good enough. It makes you withdraw into yourself. It makes you withdraw from family and friends. It tells you that you are not loved because you’re unloveable. It isolates you.
Why have veered into serious stuff?
Last week someone I knew took his own life. It came as a great shock to his family and friends. It was his 40th birthday earlier this year and he had at least another 40 years ahead of him.
As I've read the tributes written by his friends on his Facebook page, I've seen how loved he was and how much people are going to miss him. He was funny, he was kind. He was a nurse and his colleagues loved him because he was so supportive. I'm sure his patients thought he was great too.
He loved my work and had two of my pieces on his wall.
I've no doubt his friends and family are asking themselves whether they could have done more. I don't know. And that's part of the problem.
Depression is a liar. It heaps shame on you. Shame on the person with depression. Shame on the people left behind if it gets to the point of suicide.
It's essential to talk. But depression says your friends have so much going on in their lives they don't have time for your troubles. When you 'count your blessings' depression says you should be ashamed to feel so low when you have all these things going for you.
In case you are wondering what right I have to write about this, you are welcome to read other blog posts of mine: Time to Talk and the follow-up More Talk. There's also this one: Mental Health Awareness.
One of the things we can do is tell our frineds and family how much we appreciate them. Honour them. And why keep it just for friends and family - show appreciation to those you meet fleetingly that help you.
If you or someone you know is suffering from depression get help. I know that's not easy. It's easy for me to write but it's not an easy thing to do. It takes courage.
I'll leave you this from The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse.
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| (c) Charlie Mackesy/Ebury Press |
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And the story behind the song.
After my last post I continued to set up the fabric collages on the silk noil 'pages'.
I started stitching the collages using threads supplied in the Inspiration Pack. I've used extended fly stitch, running stitch, whipped running stitch, seed stitch and cross stitch.
I'm showing you the pages laid out but when I assemble the book these will be folded in half.
I'm not keen on the collages on the right of the next two pages. I think it's because I like things to be quite geometric - as in square or rectangular - whilst these two have curves.
I like these next two.
All of these are still works in progress. I may put more stitches. Possibly beads. Or maybe some text.
I think I'll work on all the remaining pages first and then see what is needed before assembling the book.
Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice
