"Enjoy the simple things in life and draw."


It's the day before Thanksgiving and this will be one of the more difficult Thanksgivings with my mother's passings.  I just started journalling again.  It took me a while to get back into it when my mother was so very sick and now; nearly 3 months after her passing, I have begun to journal again.  My mother would have wanted it that way.  Mom and I created a journal while she was getting chemotherapy.  It wasn't a really artful journal, during the chemos, but it was what we needed.  I sat there with her and we drew silly pictures, played tick-tack-toe, wrote down her appointments and any notes that the doctors or nurses had for us.  My mother wrote in one of the first cancer journals "Enjoy the simple things in life and draw."  She liked to draw the simple things that made her happy; usually a frog pond with cattails or a flower or something like that.  I loved my mother's drawings.  So I hope if you are reading this, you will "Enjoy the simple things in life."  And if you are interested in starting ArtJournal4Cancer - just let me know.  Write to me at artjournals4cancer@yahoo.com and I'll help you start your way to journalling!  Be well!  and....HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!