Clary's Travel Digression

I bet you could if you were herded into a class...

Any chance you can scan photos from family stuff? Not to nag you, I am still learning on how to so that myself. I'd love to see your family paintings...

A painting thread, what fun! Living in a town of artists, as I do, I always feel far too inept to even think of joining a class, but I know drawing and painting is a wonderful therapeutic way of passing the time. Me, I do A2K and jigsaws.

To each his/her own, Clary!

I took painting classes at the local university when I was a kid. I was noted for my 'mature' sense of colour. I think he wanted to say weird , but would my parents have kept paying for classes if he'd told them I had/have a very idiosyncratic sense of colour.

Turner. hmmmm. I don't dislike his work, but ... well, I don't dislike his work.

May I interject here with a poem someone has just sent for inclusion in our memorial service. It encapsulates what it must feel like to be depressed. I found it very moving.
It's by John Clare - who was in an asylum at the time.
I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
I am the self-consumer of my woes;
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host,
Shadows of life, whose very soul is lost.
And yet I am - I live - though I am toss'd

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dream,
Where there is neither sense of life, nor joys,
But the huge shipwreck of my own esteem
And all that's dear. Even those I loved the best
Are strange - nay, they are stranger than the rest.

I long for scenes where man has never trod -
For scenes where woman never smiled or wept -
There to abide with my Creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Full of high thoughts, unborn. So let me lie, -
The grass below; above, the vaulted sky.

I have heard, and seen, the last stanza of that many times. Thank you for sharing the whole piece, Clary.

It is quite different as a whole.

Clare

What a beautiful & moving poem ... It stopped me in my tracks.
And I just thought: You have travelled so far since this thread began!
You have come so far ....

So far to go, too... life is a journey...

Yes, but you are strong & life can only look up from here, Clary.

Onward and upward!! Yay!!

Yes, GO CLARY!

I've been battling with the photos from my new Cybershot camera, but as you see, to get it small enough to post as an avatar, I had to go black and white, blurry, and lose half my face! Honestly, is it worth it!?

Yes. :wink:

When I get a better computer (which hasn't got to #1 priority chez McTag) I would like to have a go at photo handling. Walt puts me to shame.

I'm tired of the Frankenstein Monster avatar.

I must say though, I agree Clary, I couldn't have picked you out in an identity parade from that photograph.

Nice eyes you've go there, Clary!

Yes, and even two of them

Well, yes, at least I didn't have to go monocular to fit the photo!

I put this in another thread, so i'll put it here as well:

If Clary (and now McT) want to "pm" me, i'll send each of them an e-mail address, to which they can send an image which they would like to have photo-shopped for use as an avatar. I've done this already for FM, and would be happy to offer the same service to our trans-pond cousins.

There are many here far better at than i, but i'll offer my humble services is they are wanted.

Could you please pm/post the price list first?
And is your kind offer open for those trans-pond-trans-channel-non-cousins as well?

Smarty-pants . . .

I offer the service for free, even for barbarians such as thee be, Valter . . .