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Learning to see

Learning to see

By The Mother Posted on Monday 12 August 2019Tuesday 30 July 2019 Location: England 3 min read

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Finally got the paints out of the suitcase. Can't quite believe this is what winter is like here.
#LaSerena #Chile #momentsketchers #travelsketchbook — 19 4

Finally got the paints out...

I'm packing.
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Or, to put it another way, everything I own seems to be scattered around in a manner imitating random. Of course, it's not random at all. There is logic to my system, I hope.
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Today's mission is the mending pile, which has been living in an overflowing basket on top of my wardrobe. I have the sewing machine on the desk and the carpet is covered in tiny flecks of abandoned cotton. I suspect it's cotton, but having dyed a t-shirt the other week, I'm becoming sceptical that anything is really cotton.
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The mission is to convert what I have into something wearable. I'm learning to darn because I refuse to simply buy another pair of jeans. I've updated my Nanna's scarf to try and make it less 'little-old-lady' by twisting the fabric and looping it around. I hope she's not rolling around in her grave at my butchery of her clothes. I've sewn on buttons, stitched up seams and I've adjusted a skirt to make it fit.
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It's a slow process but I am learning to be more ethical with my choices. — 14 5

I'm packing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Or, to...

I had an afternoon of painting roses in watercolour the other day. Roses are nothing new to me, I've been creating them on and off since I was fifteen and doing my art GCSE, but this might be one of the first I've done in watercolour.

My dad says it should be a white Yorkshire rose, which I guess must be possible, although on white paper in watercolour it really is going to be a challenge. In the meantime, have some purple.

This rose is painted from an old sketch I made for an oil painting I did once upon a time.
#sketchbook #watercolourflower #momentsketchers #rosesarethebest — 20 0

I had an afternoon of...

I feel caught in a whirlwind, preparing for the future whilst feeling like I've only just returned from Spain.
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I've had some amazing moments these last few weeks with friends. I've also had a few moments where I've seen the power of old, unhelpful patterns of behaviour resurfacing. I find myself in familiar surroundings, but in some ways they're completely new. I feel caught in a whirlwind, but maybe it's me who's the one spinning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
#traveldiary #lifeisakaleidoscope — 12 0

I feel caught in a...

Just a cherry.
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#watercolour #sketchbook — 11 0

Just a cherry. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #watercolour...

So I had a conversation with a friend, and I said that it's easier to talk one-to-one. They replied that for them it's much easier to talk within a group. One-to-one you're expected to talk fifty per cent of the time. In a group, it's much less.
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And something about this didn't quite sit right with me but I couldn't work out what it was. I do find group conversations much more difficult than speaking to a single individual, but why?
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And then, in the shower, it struck me that for my friend it was the talking that's difficult. For me, it's listening. In a group, if I'm talking our approximated 20 per cent of the time, I have to listen 80 per cent of the time.
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Talking's easy, really listening, now that's hard.

#communication #earlymorningphoto #murcia #introvert — 19 0

So I had a conversation...

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