Anisette Studio

From Muddy Brook Cottage Studio 1/9/2024

The morning ritual now? To feed my feathered friends, and make the morning coffee, take meds, watch the birds to see who may come. Today it is three Blue Jay and at least of them one of them is being vocal, I think in delight as one of them loves the suet and apple pieces. Their beaks must be pretty hard. A red cardinal came, all the Junco, and Titmouse, the little sparrow too! I spent a long time watching yesterday, not today. I won’t get anything done! LOL. Watching is delightful.

I did write pen pal letters including the topic of trance. The book I purchased is very in lightening. (The Creative Trance/ Altered States of Consciousness and the Creative Process by Tobi Zausner.) It has helped writing about my own thoughts and those conveyed in this book. I love that she too is an artist. I love that this state of trance describes my own experiences. It is during this that the healing process happens when art is used as art therapy. The mind is triggered, and the creative process begins. It is this fact that made me research neurobiology, the mind, consciousness and the creative process. This research makes adds to my train of thought and has led me to this book. But this is hitting it on the head. So now, to read the whole book to learn where it will take my thought processes. It’s a really good book! I plan to see what else she has written. She if I recall correctly is also a cancer survivor as well. Her creative processes helped heal her.

Cancer is surreal, and you think about what death means a lot. You decide living is what you wish to do more of. No matter how long your life will become. Living fully, embracing life, the people in your world becomes important. I put it out to the universe my life is long that I may help others heal from their illnesses and perhaps from the things I feel I have learned. I love learning what others have concluded. The bottom line is wonderfully illusive as it is fluid, always changing, always evolving as we experience. This is why I wish to experience new things. Doing so keeps life interesting and full.

Being fully present with one’s self first is important. Why is it we seem to require “getting it!” later on in life? My Thomas said that it needed to happen this way, that we went through a process during each age and stage of life. That there were indeed differences when it came to men and women. But there are commonalities, and surely, we can take the time to know one another as people. It requires trust and respect as well as other things to communicate well so it does result in mutual trust and respect. I feel so lucky to have had this experience with Thomas. It felt rare. But I came away from his death feeling I had been very loved! Well, this is a contemplative mood. Perhaps the cello music in the background is an influencer.

May you all have a wonderful day! Full of sunshine even if it is of your own making! Love and laughter are good medicines!

Best wishes! Pejj Nunes