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Colorful Grey Day
It’s December and time for some color therapy! I have been keeping myself busy with crochet and Pupper walks. Even though the sky is grey, I feel happy when I look at these colors!
This is my first post for Photo101Rehab, sponsored by a lovely and very smart blogger from my Photo101 class. Thanks for the idea and motivation Lucille!
For this post, I just tried to collect colorful images with my iphone. I did a little photo hack with the yarn by placing it on a piece of woodgrain paper and cropping it with iphoto. The Pupper picture just came out that way. Pupper and I were both really taken with the turquoise steps and green door of the house we passed this morning between rain showers.
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Weekly Photo Recap
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My online photo class is over and I thought I’d put up the weekly photo recap today to celebrate! It has been a challenge to keep up with Nablopomo and Photo101 this month, and I feel proud and a little fatigued. And strangely, a little bored.
I’m curious about the relationship between fatigue, boredom, and the ending of a chapter in one’s work life. I feel it with this month’s ending, a sense of relaxation and relief, mixed with a “what now” feeling. It’s a microcosm of the ending of my teaching career. For the last year or so, I’ve been working at not working, and strange as it sounds, it’s not easy. I have to learn to be free.
What if there is no “they” out there telling me what to do? Telling me the “shoulds” and “have tos” of life? Sometimes, it’s easy as pie. Relax, do some crafts, read, watch tv, go for a walk, visit with friends, do chores. But sometimes, it’s hard, like, “how do I do nothing?” “Am I allowed to do nothing?” “What do I want to do?” How to we get so accustomed to just following directions, coloring within the lines, buying our lives off the shelf?
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