mianutzy's Journal

Well its been a good initial start for the new group. We have 24 new members of the Healing Art HA GROUP  http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/healing-art-ha-group   at Daily Strength. A few folks have posted some messages and added some pictures of art in the group album. I hope folks will soon be starting threads and posting messages, once they see things start taking shape on the list.

Tonight I posted a picture in the group album that I took on a day trip to the zoo. I love to go to places like the zoo. I find it helps me to relax and it is a good place to be reminded of "life".

When I first started taking art therapy we were asked to choose a word to represent our recovery. I choose comfort back then, on a day when I was in a lot of pain. That was all I could really think about... wanting to get comfort (not hurt).

A few weeks ago we were asked to come up with a word about what we hoped to get out of our participation in the program at the center and make a collage about it. I choose LIFE. I will try to take a picture of it but I am not sure how a picture of it will come out.

(LOL I guess its kinda like LIFE in that sense).

I carry my sisters digital camera with me almost everywhere I go. I am not sure why. But I sense its because I want to have it handy to savor the interesting things that I come upon as I go about my day. I love digital cameras because with a memory card you can take thousands of shots and only pick the best. (but that cam can be a hoarders nightmare also, I have a hard time picking out the best and deleting anything unless it is terrible.)