I can let out a lot of my feelings when I journal. The problem I have with my journaling is that in stressful times, I tend to not write at all. Then the days fly by and I have no record of them. This makes me feel sad. But, I truly do my best to not dwell on the frustrating things going on in the world. That is why, I think, that I tend to leave the journal alone for a few days. I am not writing my journal as a list of what I did that day. It is mostly to get my feelings down on paper. Plus sometimes I do feel like writing about my day, even if it seems boring at the time. Today we actually had quite an active day! We started out working in Ava's Memory garden. We planted a lot of red plants this year. They look good and hopefully they will help to bring in the hummingbirds. We still have not seen any and it is May already. We have usually seen some by now! I sure hope we have not missed them. My husband got the hummingbird feeders out early. It was in March, I believe. There is a robin nesting on our patio again. This makes the third year, if memory serves me right. Last year she had 3 babies and 2 survived to hop around the yard. As far as we know, one died after it got down from the nest. One egg was forced out and crushed when it landed. So, one survived to fly away. This year there are 2 babies. They are getting bigger and bigger and we are very hopeful that they will make it to fly away. It is always fun to watch them. We did not see them pop out, but saw them as soon as they began to peek out over the brim of the nest. The robins are keeping good watch over them and feeding them and sitting on them during the heat of the day keeping them from getting too hot. The place she has nested is a little shelf that my husband built for me many years ago. It has a quite shallow shelf, so we were very surprised the first time we found a nest there. To see it used over and over is amazing to us. It is right in the main flow of our patio, too. So, we take the long way around so as not to bother the birds. The mother does not seem to mind our being there. She will remain on the fence with a worm in her mouth until we leave the area. Sometimes she will give us quite a talking to if we linger there too long. It sounds like we are getting scolded! I have also started an Art Journal, actually several at a time! That way I can keep creating while the pages dry in my other ones. I think I currently have 3 in the works. I have gotten away from them recently because of other comitments, but am anxious to get back at them soon. I am having quite a problem in finding which type of art I want to put in them. I know that it will come, but sometimes I can get pretty frustrated when I am making attempts. Especially when I see the different styles and how in depth some of the artists get. There is amazing art talent out there, believe me.
