Feb 1, 02:56 pm
Yes Pollyanna (wk 4)
Hello Everyone! Here is my response to last week’s prompt. I wrote some great journalling midway through the week after a day of flurried, somewhat random transactions throughout town. I’ve since lost that piece of paper (thus journaling on this is improvised!), but the sentiment remains the same. Here’s what drove this page…....
I’ve always been a happy, smiley person in just about every encounter I have. I believe kindness is the way and that people just want to be regarded and heard. I vehemently dislike “general rudeness” because I don’t see the point in expending that energy. I understand technology, overloaded schedules, crowding, etc. etc. have contributed to the terse society and I think it’s sad.
Life is hard, very hard and we’re all in it together. Why then wouldn’t we just try to make the daily struggle a little softer for humanity overall? No, we can’t all be Ghandi and we won’t save the world with a few extra pleases and thank yous. But, in the we can choose kindness over rudeness. We can take a moment to actually regard another human being we encounter—people do respond. (okay, end of soapbox….thanks for listening).
On the page itself I wanted bright, happy, tactile, and to try a beaded edge technique. Everything is fabric and enhanced with colored pencil, gel pens, and paint. Thanks for looking!
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