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Self Nurturing,ahhhhh!
  Oh so many ways to do it!! What makes you laugh? What makes you excited? What makes you feel like a kid again? Think about these and do them often! Pray for others and do nice things for others! Take a warm bath!! Hug your animals! Eat lobster! Go on a walk and notice the glorious natural things God has made in nature! Smile real big and surround yourself with people that lift you up,only!!! Get new sheets! Love the special person that you are!!!   faith4u

posted by faith4u on September 22, 2005 at 9:59 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you

Thanks for dropping by,

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on August 18, 2005 at 5:34 PM | link to this | reply

hi brisbane
your drawing is beautiful

posted by robdon67 on August 13, 2005 at 5:51 PM | link to this | reply

more on pics

Jo, what camera did you use for those pics and what megapixels...the resolution is very good. And I love the water colour you did.

How long ago did you take them?

You show a good knowledge of photography..did you do a course or are you a natural at it...can you show me how to do that?

Ken

 

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 12, 2004 at 3:00 AM | link to this | reply

pics

Jo those pics are beautiful. They are so inspiring...you have a great eye for these things. I really look forward to seeing the real thing and taking some photos too. No wonder you like Straddie so much..its an awesome place.

Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 11, 2004 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply

trees

Jo, do I know much about trees! Well actually no. I like to look at them but wouldnt want to own one.

Actually nobody owns a tree, its like royalty it exists in free time and space..an entity unto itself..symbolising creation...No, only the Divine owns the trees..we just get to be in harmony with them..aint it the truth. 

Love the pics.

 

Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 11, 2004 at 3:12 PM | link to this | reply

What

photos!

That is why I would like a camera with a zoom lens and at least 6mp's.

You should see the sunsets and storm pics on can take on Straddie!

Try these pics then and you might get the idea of Straddie http://community.webshots.com/album/36365973uHpVMJ

My favourite pic is called God's rays!

Back to the meaning of life!

Do you knopw much about trees? The bandanas in thse pics are something!

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 11, 2004 at 12:47 PM | link to this | reply

clickable links

Hey Jo a clickable link it aint...but I cut and paste  and used the browser to find it...I wish I could paint and draw..you are one talented dudette.

Am looking forward to Straddie..the hotel owner told me we are gonna get some magnificent views from our hotel room as it faces the ocean and overlooks (past the paperbark trees) the bay.

May need a long lens for the camera though!

Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 11, 2004 at 5:29 AM | link to this | reply

This is hard to really get the hang of.
What I find in all of these places is that the stayers are those who can handle the initial frustration while they work out the system.
Whatever that may be.
OK
Let's try this then
http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/18307/files/s.jpg

Boy I hope that works I can't remember why I was posting it!
Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 10, 2004 at 9:21 PM | link to this | reply

I have found I can edit this

posted by brisbane_artist on February 10, 2004 at 9:18 PM | link to this | reply

I have found I can edit this

posted by brisbane_artist on February 10, 2004 at 9:18 PM | link to this | reply

drawing course

Hey Jo

The link isnt live..

Yes happy to be your guinea pig for your experiments.

Looking forward to the walk, the lakes, the drawing, the photographs etc..the process is therapeutic..and I need to destress...

Communing with nature...just how God intended..I am Adam and you are.......(who you want to be)

Ken

 

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 10, 2004 at 3:31 PM | link to this | reply

Here

is the pic!

Looking forward to working on Straddie.

http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/180307/files/s.jpg

Let's see if this works!

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 10, 2004 at 1:20 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Ken!

While on Straddie on the 21st I will be writing a course on drawing trees.

Do you want to be my guniea pig.

Whilst walking to Blue Lakes I will stop from time to time take pghotographs and draw?

So you can draw too if you want to?

Drawing nature brings you into communion with it.

You will love Blue Lake.

You will love Brown Lake even better because of the Mellaluca!

The bad news is my website really is in trouble!

Jo

 

posted by brisbane_artist on February 10, 2004 at 4:30 AM | link to this | reply

re whisper
Jo the link didnt work and I was so looking forward to seeing your work. Yes this system has a mind of its own and sometimes posts when you hit return...I tried pressing it instead..worked and saved me replacing the keyboard...its a bit bent from "hitting" return. I love nature..its inspiring, makes you feel part of Gods creation, its romantic, its fulfilling, its love in action..in the finest expression that the Divine has created. And trees...well they are the essence of it all...dont you think.. I would love to learn how to draw..are you running a course on drawing trees? Or can I have private lessons? I would like it if others joined us and revealed how they express "re-creation" artistically or literary. Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

Re whisper
Jo

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 5:16 PM | link to this | reply

Whisper

It seems to happen when you hit return it just plain posts.

http://www.busywomen.com.au/s.jpg

This is a picture I painted on Stradbroke Island.

It is a simple water colour.

When I go over there I trek through the forest to the Blue Lake and Brown Lake seek out trees.

All kinds of trees. (But I love the X and the melaluca)

My next course at the Suite is a quick course on how to draw trees.

So we certainly share a love for nature and the purity that the growth of trees affords us.

I love them as a subject matter as each one is so individual and yet one can become very quick and adept at drawing them once you come to understand their sturcture.  May be you could start drawing to illustrate your poems? They are very inspiring.

Drawing them is very healing.

trees I mean.

Jo

 

posted by brisbane_artist on February 9, 2004 at 4:25 AM | link to this | reply

I Luv

posted by brisbane_artist on February 9, 2004 at 4:14 AM | link to this | reply

posting more than once

Help Jo

 

This thing seems to be muliplying the postings...is it user error or are we inhabited by evil spirits reeking havock in cyberspace?

Ken

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 3:10 AM | link to this | reply

creation

Somehow I posted that poem before I knew what I was doing...was just trying to format the last 2 lines...but you get my drift...its the shape of a tree...not an exploding from the inside out kinda tree but a tree nevertheless.

Trees are sacred to the only true Australians and symbolise the creative crucible of life...thats what i tried to capture....

But notice that it only exists in the mind of one...very deep meaning here...also symbolic of the finding of oneself through the process of creation...think about it.

Any response from any other poets out there??? This is a challenge...express yourself as part of the process of "being".

 

Ken

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 3:08 AM | link to this | reply

xanthorrhoea macronema

xanthorrhoea macronema ..is that a native greeting..its looks greek to me. It actually sounds like a disease that you would want to see a doctor about pretty quickly before it ate your body parts completely.

You posted 3 times to make a point Jo? Or are you making fun of my limited attention span?

I understand now about first rights, but if I wanted to publish a book of poems can I post them here and not cause a problem?

This poem is titled Creation

 

Ideas

 

Thoughts evolving

 

Words so slowly forming

 

Flames emerging, crackling, licking

 

Embers burning swirling, touching, embracing, caressing

 

Imaginings and wonderings dancing, courting, kissing, romancing

 

Sparks rising, flying, exploding from the raging fire of creation’s furnace

    

                          Finally released

 

                        Becoming a reality

 

      In the mind of one

 

 

                                                                                                © K R Allen   2003

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 3:03 AM | link to this | reply

xanthorrhoea macronema

xanthorrhoea macronema ..is that a native greeting..its looks greek to me. It actually sounds like a disease that you would want to see a doctor about pretty quickly before it ate your body parts completely.

You posted 3 times to make a point Jo? Or are you making fun of my limited attention span?

I understand now about first rights, but if I wanted to publish a book of poems can I post them here and not cause a problem?

This poem is titled Creation

 

Ideas

 

Thoughts evolving

 

Words so slowly forming

 

Flames emerging, crackling, licking

 

Embers burning swirling, touching, embracing, caressing

 

Imaginings and wonderings dancing, courting, kissing, romancing

 

Sparks rising, flying, exploding from the raging fire of creation’s furnace

    

                          Finally released

 

      Becoming a reality

 

      In the mind of one

 

 

                                                                                                © K R Allen   2003

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 9, 2004 at 3:03 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Ken!

xanthorrhoea macronema

http://www.busywomen.com.au/x.jpg 

What does this exploded tree trunk have to do with recovery?

This is a pic of one of the plants I want to go back to photography on Stradbroke Island on Saturday 21st Feb. It exploded in a fire last Christmas. It is a story I am writing about recovery!

And Stradbroke

And life?

Now the point that I put this pic here doesn't prevent me using it in another article.

If I wrote a poem here it wouldn't prevent me using it in even in a first rights article!

But if I wanted to keep the first rights to a poem that I wanted to enter granting the publisher first rights. For example in a competition. Then I certainly wouldn't put the poem here?

Do you see the point that I am making?

However if people have a conflicting view - please feel free to say so!

JO

posted by brisbane_artist on February 9, 2004 at 1:40 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Ken!

xanthorrhoea macronema

<img src=http://www.busywomen.com.au/x.jpg width=100 height=83><a href="http://www.busywomen.com.au/x.jpg>Click to enlarge</a>

OK

What does this exploded tree trunk have to do with recovery?

This is a pic of one of the plants I want to go back to photography on Stradbroke Island on Saturday 21st Feb. It exploded in a fire last Christmas. It is a story I am writing about recovery!

And Stradbroke

And life?

Now the point that I put this pic here doesn't prevent me using it in another article.

If I wrote a poem here it wouldn't prevent me using it in even in a first rights article!

But if I wanted to keep the first rights to a poem that I wanted to enter granting the publisher first rights. For example in a competition. Then I certainly wouldn't put the poem here?

Do you see the point that I am making?

However if people have a conflicting view - please feel free to say so!

JO

posted by brisbane_artist on February 9, 2004 at 1:38 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Ken!

xanthorrhoea macronema

<img src="http://www.busywomen.com.au/x.jpg"width=100 height=83><a href="http://www.busywomen.com.au/x.jpg>Click to enlarge</a>

OK

What does this exploded tree trunk have to do with recovery?

This is a pic of one of the plants I want to go back to photography on Stradbroke Island on Saturday 21st Feb. It exploded in a fire last Christmas. It is a story I am writing about recovery!

And Stradbroke

And life?

Now the point that I put this pic here doesn't prevent me using it in another article.

If I wrote a poem here it wouldn't prevent me using it in even in a first rights article!

But if I wanted to keep the first rights to a poem that I wanted to enter granting the publisher first rights. For example in a competition. Then I certainly wouldn't put the poem here?

Do you see the point that I am making?

However if people have a conflicting view - please feel free to say so!

JO

posted by brisbane_artist on February 9, 2004 at 1:37 AM | link to this | reply

coping and other stuff

I hope your dad is Ok and that you have the strength to be able to handle the situation however serious it is.

Thanks for suggesting that you will post information relating to copyright as I am sure that like me not many even give it a thought and then get ourselves into trouble.

It would be great to be able to express ourselves here on this subject using stories, thoughts, poems, drawings etc. To use our creativity to express how we cope with what is emotional trauma.

Thanks again Jo

Ken

 

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 8, 2004 at 1:06 AM | link to this | reply

I will

 post my understanding of the copy rioght issues here for all to see.

Because as I know you do.

I hope others post here too.

I would love to see drawings poetry and other stuff pertaining to the issues.

Off to see my poor sick ol' dad and when I come back I will post that.

Thanks Ken for you valuable input

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 7, 2004 at 10:53 PM | link to this | reply

copyright
Thanks Josephina I hadnt thought of that...dont really understand the copyright stuff. Would love to see you do illustrations..but I guess you have the same copyright issues eh? I just get excited at being able to epress myself to a wider audience and perhaps to a few like you who actually care. Got lots of poems and ideas and just straight out images that we could work on. My poetry (like your art therapy work) actually works so that it reveals who I am as a person..it is therapy itself as it starts in the soul and works its way through the heart and into the mind and down out my fingers onto the keyboard...a birthing process itself..complete with struggles. Writing helps me cope. it has shown me who I am and helped me like myself for perhaps the first time in my long and ancient life. Couple this with working with the AIDS sufferers and other marginalised and disenfranchised groups like the indigenous (the only true Aussies) and the refugees...and the use of poetry to express my (and I hope society's) response then God has worked a miracle in my life..Just like he has with recovering addicts and those that are their partners who have to cope with the trauma of addiction. Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 7, 2004 at 9:52 PM | link to this | reply

Well

Don't unleash any poetry that you want to retain copy right for?

First rights I mean.

But let loose if you would like I would love to pop in with drawings and see what we can come up with,

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 7, 2004 at 9:42 PM | link to this | reply

imagery

Jo

Yes illustrate the the imagery as it strikes you in your soulness...The words are powerful but the illustration completes it.

I like the macrocosm/microcosm idea..its seems to be so correct and whilst elusive it seems so obvious when you hear it.

Mark Bryant is right too...we must heal ourselves, deal with our inner demons and let loose the spiritual essence of who we really are...when we are in touch with the divine we are ourselves discovered and complete.

Then we are able to touch the lives of others in the mighty and magnificent ways that the Divine one did...it is an outpouring of unconditional love..a love that is given without any expectation of receiving in return. It is the giving or releasing of this kind of love that is the reward in itself...Yes indeed it is more blessed to give than to receive.

This is the essence of being able to help those inflicted and those affected with AIDS...an outpouring of divine unconditional love...it cant be done any other way or with any other motive.

Jo, yes illustrate the imagery and if convinced by others I will unleash my poetry here...

Ken

posted by poetnwriter on February 7, 2004 at 9:30 PM | link to this | reply

Hey

Ken,

Others might not know this but Ken and I know each other really well.

So I write about healing of the individual and Ken likes to write about his passion which is the Aids Endemic in Africa (among other things)

Now Ken -

I am going to make a point here and I hope it is not too controversial?

I love the imagery you have just evoked and would like you to allow me to draw that simply as one of the illustrations for your beautiful poetry?

Why?

Because I see the healing as macrocosm/microsom

That is what Mark Bryan was saying you know?

When he came back from Africa too!

Get well because

soon this world might be in turmoil.

Yes we do have to carry healing energy to the world.

No we can't do it if we are not healing oursleves?

Do we go over to Africa and help the sufferers there?

Or so we stay here and work on our own inner journey?

It is a balance between introspection and service work in community.

It all makes sense though at times seems obscure.

Strange that even making those descisions are tough like the lil' chiken battling with a membrane that is holding it in?

What you think the start of good imagery

What I like about writing in a place like this is that if we banter imagery and ideas around it will be held in one place that we can both access and discuss

Comments from others is welcome

Yours truly,

lil' ol'

me

posted by brisbane_artist on February 7, 2004 at 6:17 PM | link to this | reply

coping

Hi Jo

 

I will check out the reference to recovery journal.

I think I understand what you say about the recovery process as an experience that has its miraculous perspective. Have you seen this take place?

I truly believe in triumph out of adversity and that one needs to experience a "birthing" or should I say a "rebirthing" experience to actually become who we are meant to be.

Take for example the birth of a bird...if they cant break out of the shell by themselves...if they cant survive the struggle to breathe..the struggle of life then they are doomed...if we break the shell for them it wont help..eventually they become weak and die.

It is this struggle that makes us strong.

For those of who have not had to struggle we also have not experienced and in that we are doomed.

Ken

 

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 7, 2004 at 3:05 AM | link to this | reply

Hey

Hi Ken,

Sorry about that I copied it over wrongly.

Did you know recovering from addiction can be a wonderful experience?

This is because the person is forced to look at their own character very closely and because of this the healing can be quite deep!  Life opens up in unexpected ways.

Quite the lil' ol' miracle really.

If things are taken one step at a time life can become one loooong awesome experience.

Here is the correct link.

Recovery Journal.

Still looking for feedback!

LOL

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 7, 2004 at 12:14 AM | link to this | reply

living comfortably with an addict

Thanks Jo

Firstly I couldnt get the link to the article to work..is it still current or is my computer up the spout?

I am really inspired by those people who are addicts and take control of their life...it cant be easy and I guess that there are many who dont make it...men and women alike.

Living with an addict who doesnt face up to their situation must be emotional suicide even if there is no physical threat. Life would be untenable even if you loved the addicted person. Tough love is a great concept but hard  to do in practice. There needs to be a support group and a nurturing process in place for even basic coping. Success can only come at the end from an inner strength which is sourced from a higher power. That power, lets say God, teaches us that we are divine and made in the image of God and therefore perfect as His/Her creation. If God sees us this way then that is what we are. We then need to get intouch with the divine essence through reflection and meditation...external groups can help us do this..but at the end of the day we have got to want to do this ourselves as it is a personal decision and not one that is tied to someone elses decision.

Being with an addict who is someone who has taken control of their life and regained their sense of who they are as a person, a spiritual being...is a wonderful testimony to the power of the human spirit. And these people are inspirational and a joy to be around. They radiate a glow, an aura of spiritual peace and happiness and contentment. As a non-addicted person I envy that and then at once recognise that I can reach that same place between the dots and dashes of life.

Ken

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 6, 2004 at 10:34 PM | link to this | reply

Hello Ken

Hello Ken,

I guess you have hit the nail on the head with this one.

I wonder if this article would help you understand the realtionship between quiet reflective time and then coming out to meet others who share the same desire for wholeness you do!

Don't be put off by the fact that this article has a women's title!

All thses ideas pertain to men and women alike.

I would really love some feedback about how the article grabs you.

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on February 6, 2004 at 8:16 PM | link to this | reply

self nurture self awareness self understanding self love

Jo I agree that we have to truly know who we are as a person before we can reach out to others. We have to truly love ourselves before we can reflect that love to another being...but how do we do that.

I dont think solitude or cutting ourselves off from the world will do it...surely we understand more about ourselves by experiencing the warmth of interaction with others?

There has to be periods of deep reflection and meditation to reach that place of perfect understanding...how do you get to that place?

Ken  :-)

 

 

 

posted by poetnwriter on February 6, 2004 at 7:11 PM | link to this | reply

Hey Annie

Yes I guess so!

In the community I belong to it is considered essential.

I guess it has to actually be one of your priorities to actually become real.

Hard to justify as a priority,

Jo

posted by brisbane_artist on January 16, 2004 at 1:42 PM | link to this | reply

For me,

self nurture means solitude - a rare commodity in my world.

posted by anniemoon on January 11, 2004 at 4:35 AM | link to this | reply