JOURNALING:
[Home]
What does it mean to me? This week’s Art Journal prompt was a difficult one for me. I pondered all week ,jotted a few notes here and there, and ultimately struggled to translate my vision on to a page. I suppose I had difficulty because the first thing that came to mind were my childhood memories. My sister and I were abruptly torn away from our childhood home upon my parent’s divorce when i was 8. Since then we jumped back and forth quite a bit, living with our dad,then with our mom, then with our dad,then back with our mom. We had quite a few addresses throughout our childhood and teenage years.I learned how to adjust to change rather quickly {new surroundings, new schools, new friends} The underlying current through the whole experience was insecurity and pain. Fast forward to my adulthood. I have a husband now, and together we have four children…Yet,another reason why I had difficulty with this week’s prompt is because due to our current financial status and the outrageous California real estate market John and I haven’t had the opportunity to buy our own home. This hits a sensitive nerve in me because I have been longing for this since childhood.
As the week went by I began to realize that the most important element to home is not so much the four walls and roof that provide shelter nor the foundation of cement beneath our feet. Nor a 30-year mortgage or our own personal cash cow called Home Equity…No… Home in its deepest meaning is family. A family knitted together in sickness, health, tough emotional and financial seasons and triumphant seasons….
(other journaling:)
We live on the corner of Ramona and Grace Street. {God’s Grace} {Home: wherever this may be literally, the most important thing is to build our foundation on love,faith,trust}
PHOTO FRAME:Tore a piece of corrugated cardboard,cut out a square in the middle of it and inserted a collage of family photos inside.
CIRCLES: used a laundry measuring cup, dipped the rim in acrylic paint and ‘stamped” them on the pages before prior to journaling.
