I am particularly thoughtful today because of a tragedy that has touched our lives recently. My 17 year old daughter's school pal Natasha was hit by a train and killed a few weeks ago after an evening out. No one knows how this came to happen. She was an only child of two apparently very loving, caring parents. A pretty, bubbly, responsible girl who had everything to live for and who had, only moments earlier spoken about her homeward journey to her family without any hint of depression or suicidal thoughts. After being extremely sad at the knowledge of her death, it has now been reported that her mother has committed suicide on the same spot of railway line, presumably so overwhelmed with grief that she found it unbearable to live without her daughter who she, indeed, described as her 'life'. No on can imagine what pain her husband, Natasha's father, must be going through. My words are superfluous. My deepest sympathy and loving thoughts go out to the family. I can only hope that somehow he finds the energy and will to cope at this most desperate time. Any creative energy I might have tonight is channelled into positive energy directed at this grieving family. If human emotion is a well of feeling from which we all draw, then please take my share. Love x
Read more about the story,
Click here: Mother of Natasha Coombs dies on same railway line - Times Online
Cabinet cards
On a lighter note, just look what arrived from e bay today - 14 genuine full size cabinet cards! These 'instant relatives' are great for using in altered art projects. I love to wonder who these people were, what their lives were like, what work they did.
Here is a piece written by a friend this week about her faith in God...
"I have inner peace and my mind in the right place. People seek all kinds of things looking for it and it is right in their own inner being already. God calls us to look to him, there is nothing to compare with that....we are born with that instinct but sometimes we ignore &reject it and try other things because it is so much easier....but In the end there is just you and Him....Been there, done that, sought other things,,,,.when truth comes, no one can take that from you....a light bulb comes on and never dims...A total relationship is established with Him...Would never trade it for anything...There you have it from my own experience and perspective. And it is all completely free! At the end of my so broken heart and disillusionment with EVERYTHING and sitting on the toilet to boot! I just calmly said, God, are you there? then lead me to a place I've never been and show me your truth cause I can't find it anywhere else....That journey has never ended....So.I stay away from lesser things than what I have found. Have always liked the best ! What the heck could possibly be above God! A Holy God giving his absolute life for us so we could have total relationship with him! It was too awesome for me to comprehend..."
I think that is just lovely.
And today I got to grips with altering 4 full size cabinet cards (CDV's) for a swap hosted by Teri Chinen using mixed media, gesso, chalks, rubber stamping, collage, embellishments, stencilling etc. If those folk only knew what I'd be doing with their photos some one hundred years after they were taken. It's not often I alter the 'real thing', normally chosing it work on copies, but here we were asked to work on and swap the originals. I can't believe they took me seven hours to do! Here are the before's and after's......
AFTER......
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