From Choas to Serene

I haven’t blogged since last Saturday when I posted for the Weekly Photography Challenge.  WOW.  I can’t believe it.  Where did this week go.  It started out with Chris and I rearranging our house.  And that took a couple of days.  We still have some minor cleanup to do, but now when I sit at my computer I can look outside too.  What a nice feeling.

Then on Tuesday I went to my volunteer job, where I work with disabled adults most of whom have a mentality of four to seven year old.  I had a real good day.  I was able to stay with someone on their first day at the facility.  This person started out very withdrawn and uncommunicative.  Wouldn’t respond to touch or voice.  Since I can pretty much do what I want, I decided to just sit near him and just be with him while he tried to put a 60 piece puzzle together.  The radio was playing Christmas songs and all of a sudden this person started to sing Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  And from that point on I could get their attention and communicate.  It was sure fun to watch and be a part of it.

Another person who has had a brain injury who just loves to talk.  Mostly talks gibberish and doesn’t make any sense.  But this person is getting more and more coherent.  What is really cool, is that  I can actually take the time to listen to him and react to this persons stories, jokes.  This person loves music and every once in awhile can follow a song for a little while.  We actually sang the entire song of Do You Hear What I Hear together.   What a blessing to hear this person stay that coherent for that long.  I loved every minute of my time there this week.

Then yesterday, I had an Energy Medicine session with my teacher who is also a practitioner.   I feel so good after seeing her.   I was also very pleased to see how well my own energy is running.

So my life in photography this week.  Let me see what I can come up with.  It started with chaos with the moving of furniture and computers and ended up being quite calm and serene.

Here is a shot of the remaining chaos of computer wires for an old computer we need to get rid of.

And this last photo is of a small fountain I took earlier this year.

Hugs and blessings

Cee

Me and Redubble

 

I will probably talk about Redbubble.com a lot on my blog.  It’s a an on-line community for photographers and artists.  It is a place most people initially join because they want to sell their work and Redbubble does the printing and framing of your art work.  And there are some people I’m sure who make a lot of money on Redbubble, but mostly we find a strong and encouraging environment for our passions.  I’ve gotten to know a lot of people around the world through Redbubble.

Tuesday’s is Volunteer Day for Me

Here are a couple other captures that I took today.  The garden in the house, some signs down the street from where I live, and I thought my shower head had some interesting shapes.  Hope you enjoy!

Tuesday’s is the day when I volunteer for an company called, Exceed Enterprises.  They work with handicapped adults.  I work with daytime activities.  We do aerobics in the mornings and a little cooking.  Then we have lunch and story time.  There is always breaks in the day where they can do anything they want and I volunteer just to spend time with them.  Most of the people I work with have both physical and mental handicaps.  The people who I work with range in ages from 22 to 60.  They are the most loving and caring people I know.  I walk in and get a lot of hugs and hellos from everyone.   I always come home exhausted mentally and physically, but so uplifted.