touching when you're not drawing

[Mary Barrett]

The New Year has ushered us into a time of possibilities. One of my wishes is that it is a time of generous acceptance, compassion and trust in ourselves.

I learned of my husband's deception and betrayal 9 months ago. I have lived alone for 7. I've had my first Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Eve without him.

I haven't been drawing much. So how can I have a group about grief and TD? I don't know, really. But, I find that the philosophy and spirit of the process is always with me. TD is not only something I do but it is a condition I live with. I sit inside the process, inside the imaginal world of touch, inside the feel and compelling current of touch. Images reveal themselves.
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[Jan Thompson]

I haven't been drawing or had any room for drawing in my life for way too long. So. this is an image of grief from the past and one which I have not fully integrated. It came out of the imaginal world, one Saturday afternoon, at Miller Street studios I was all alone. I liked that Studio when we were a group of folks working together. And then the Saturdays when I was alone in there were also good, a kind of refuge from my daily grind, etc. AND I remember feeling very lonely at those times, the times of being alone with myself in that space. I still don't completely know what this image has to say to me. But I share her with this group because I think she belongs. As you say, Mary, "Images reveal themselves". Thankyou for the opportunity to go back to her; and to share here with the group.