Thursday, April 22, 2010

I didnt realise 6 months had gone past

Hi and welcome back. I have had a busy 6 mths, with a couple of temporary jobs prior to xmas. The usual xmas rush and fun and games. Then a wonderful weeks holiday in Adelaide. We travelled by train from Melb to Adelaide. It takes 8 hours, long but interesting and we didnt have to drive. Nice hot weather over there for the week.
I got back from holidays and commenced working 4 days later. I have just finished that Temp assignment and enjoying a few weeks at home, with the kids.
I am hoping the creative bug might resurface and you may see more input on this site again. I have a box of material on the lounge room floor begging to be used in some way and a quilt i need to finish for my child.
Cheers

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Mediatation Weekend

I have participated in a meditation weekend for self discovery and creativity. It was an interesting journey . Held at a conference centre in the Stathbogie ranges near Violet Town in Victoria. The scenary and surrounds of the area are covered in bushland. Birds, bushwalking , rocks, wildlife. We rose early in the morning and the sunrise was spectacular through the trees, colours of warm reds and oranges. I enjoyed the Thai Che in the morning, this was new to me but I found it sort of calming. The actual workshops were not actually what i was expecting from the weekend, but i participated and found some of it appropriate to myself.  For fun we walked through the bush, i had my camera and pursued taking photos of trees and lychen on rocks, and looking down on the valleys in the distance. The forest was nice and quiet and peaceful, that in itself was a nice form of meditation for myself. We did some exploratory artwork, with pencils, textas, cutting and pasting, and materials. I enjoyed this part of the weekend and enjoyed playing with colours and textures with no pressures to create any thing with an expectation involved. What did i learn? I learnt i had a lovely time away from my family, and i enjoyed not being nagged or asked to do things for people all weekend. I enjoyed not having to cook - the food was nice. I also enjoyed returning home and having a Hudsons hotchoc on the way home and suprising hubby with a coffee and returning early enough to get some stuff done around the house before it got dark.
Onwards to this week and work, school, lunches, dinners, bills and all the usual stuff. Back to normal.