I love your gallery, and your socks too.

Thank you

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Thanks for the watch. I want to keep in touch. I added you to mine too.

Maybe after this week I will have some of the big projects in my life taken care of and I can spend more time on journaling, in all the forms.

There is a moleskin club, the ATC folks...I put a watch on some of them, just to see the work, not always to join.

After just 2 months, soon 3, I haven't settled in with just which Clubs will be home bases for me. I'm experimenting. I haven't ever had time for clubs before. Always working too much, TOO much, in the past.

I joined Realm of Fantasy, but I think they are over my head. Seeing the different genres all put in clumps like that is helping me figure out which ones I really want to pursue.

I love everything I see and want to try it all, in my head, but don't get around to it. Going in too many directions just spreads my energy and disperses it.

I've ended up doing a lot of collecting to my fav gallery. That's addicting to me. I know I am compulsive. One trick I've learned is to FORCE myself to look at another direction. I can't sit around saying don't do "x" anymore,,,that just gives "x" more power.

I make myself stop the x, which can be very hard, and go toward y so y gets to be my next compulsive thing.

I've just accepted that about myself. Maybe there is an underlying cause I will discover and work out.

Or, it may just be the way God made me, like having one leg shorter than the other, and learning if I wear one built up shoe, walking is much easier. Hope you can follow my analogy.

We may not be alike at all in what we've got on our plates to work through. But from your journal, I see we have this in common...working on our lives to recover parts that were taken, or parts that never had a chance, YET, to grow healthy and complete.

I don't mind journaling about my steps as I think and feel personal things. Or writing comments out like this. I am quite sure many, many people are wearing masks or chasing activities to hide, or hide from, chaos and pain on the inside.

[But feel free to note me, if you would like me not to write so much personal stuff "in the public eye"]

I am thinking we may follow each other's altered books-collage art. I don't have to use words so much though, I mean this kind.

I know, as soon as I get organized, I want to spend some quality time with that kind of art. I'm looking forward to it, finally. It used to scar the dickens out of me. Perfectionism, and fear of what I might reveal to myself.

mel

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hey! I finally got to understanding this site

How do you add????

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thanks a lot for the fav!

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