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Art Is A Healing Practice
Writing, drawing, music — that sort of thing
Lately, I have seen a lot of beautiful leaves on the ground. It is awesome how they are all different. Some of them have really cool combinations of red and yellow. Some are bright, bright orange. It made me wonder if there is any way to keep them. I did some searching and discovered that you can preserve leaves a few different ways. The simplest way is to flatten them between the pages of a book. Once they are dry they will keep for a long time. You can also use glycerin to keep the colors intact. Look up “glycerin leaf bath” if interested.
It is interesting, how many different creative things there are to do. Maybe I am biased. Creativity is a big part of my life. I love writing the most although sometimes I do creative things besides writing.
I have had some difficult experiences in my life and art has always been there for me. There was a time when I was not at all sure what might happen the next day, the next week. I had been living in a blur and when it all came tumbling down, I asked myself, What have I got now?
Not much. I had done some cool drawings on my own in high school and I remembered how much I enjoyed art classes. I seemed to be fairly good at these things. I took a class about classic novels, too. That was a lot of fun.
