After being taken into the emergency ward, of the hospital, R. Duck, was soon attended to and all is well.
outside the hospital, praising the attention received by staff and by the ambulance service. / / + /
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A rock outcrop at Mt Bell, Australia
patron saint of things lost From the series & limited edition book: ‘Evidence’ / Details: / http://lauren-rabbit.deviantart.com/journal/18842732/
My deepest apologies to one and all for not responding to comments, or commenting, until today. For over a week I have been afflicted …
My deepest apologies to one and all for not responding to comments, or commenting, until today. For over a week I have been afflicted with the most intense allergies I have ever had. The effect has been flu-like, sneezing, ears plugged, itchy throat, eyes watering. It has been interesting suffering with this, and working full time. I am just about back, though. All that is left is the lingering sluggishness that accompanied the ‘illness’. I hope that all will be patient with me as I move through the replies I am so behind on :-)
Recovering from a late night out, a broken heart, an argument with family or your best friend? Feeling rather fragile as a result? Want to thank someone for a wonderful night out? Say thank you or sorry or anything else you wish to express, with this hand drawn text design.
Recovering from a late night out, a broken heart, an argument with family or your best friend? Feeling rather fragile as a result? Want to thank someone for a wonderful night out? Say thank you or sorry or anything else you wish to express, with this hand drawn text design.
Recovering from a late night out, a broken heart, an argument with family or your best friend? Feeling rather fragile as a result? Want to thank someone for a wonderful night out? Say thank you or sorry or anything else you wish to express, with this hand drawn text design.
Recovering from a late night out, a broken heart, an argument with family or your best friend? Feeling rather fragile as a result? Want to thank someone for a wonderful night out? Say thank you or sorry or anything else you wish to express, with this hand drawn text design.
This image is a high quality print of an original painting by Tasmanian artist Deborah Conroy.
I’m thinking of her. / I’d break the rules and then recover. / She likes to paint the world grey. / I’ll save her from herself today.
For a girl.
This is another shot of the Sierra Mountains near Bloomfield CA. If you look in the center of the photo, you can see what remains of the devastation of Hydraulic mining. The land is healing here, but it is taking the better part of over 100 years to do. Malakoff Diggins is now a State Historical Park, and is preserved for everyone to see, and to learn from our past mistakes.
John Eldredge. The Journey Of Desire. I continue to be stunned by the level of deadness that most people consider normal and seem to be contented to live with. It had been more than a year since Diane and Ted first came to see me for counseling. As with most marriages, the real issues lay buried under years of just getting by, hidden beneath the way we’ve learned to live with each other so as not to rock the boat. Sadly, this way involves killing large regions of our hearts. And so their struggle toward intimacy required a lot of pain and hard work. But they stuck with it until they began to taste the true life of a real marriage. At this point Diane asked Ted about his deepest desires: “If I could be more of what you wanted in a woman, what do you secretly wish I would offer you?” It a question that most men are dying to be asked. His response? Clean socks. That’s all he could come up with. Life would be better, his marriage would be richer, if Diane would keep his drawer filled with clean socks. I wanted to throw him out the window. I wasn’t angry with Ted because his answer was unbelievably shallow or because it mocked all that his wife was seeking to offer him. I was angry because it’s just not true. We are made in the image of God, we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie. Ted may believe that clean socks would satisfy him, but he is deceived. His satisfaction comes at the price of his soul. When I brought up this very issue with a colleague, he sort of dismissed it all with the comment, “Not everyone longs like you do.” I had to admit that much. But we were meant to. I thought of The Weight of Glory, where Lewis says that “when we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”
Looks like the land decided to take back what may have been taken from her. Gotta love when Nature conquers over man’s presence.
Part Of My Forest Soul Series: / Such a debate, is fire good for a forest or is it bad? / I think that it is good if it is the nature of things, not that I want homes to be destroyed or anyone killed, animal or otherwise, but I also understand that fire revitalizes the forest, making room for new growth and homes for animals, natural thinning etc. The one time that I see it as bad is when it is deliberately set and both man and nature is harmed. This is the meaning of this image and the meaning of the title! Thanks for viewing and reading and commenting! /
I thought of this pun earlier today and remembered that I had some close-ups of some old bricks that would show some definite texture. So here you are :) It actually uses two photos, originally shot to be posted with a text that would present an allegory for my struggle to recover my brain after a burnout-depression meltdown in 2006-07… I wasn’t holding together very well, kinda like having the mortar falling out and the bricks coming loose. This probably only makes sense to someone who has been there… not something I would wish on ANYone.
A black and white digital photo of an IV in a hospital room.
Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) Photographed at Aspley, Queensland Australia ~ FEATURED ~ Australian Wildlife Group (8 May 2009) / ~ FEATURED ~ Animal Portraits Group (6 May 2009)
To all my wonderful friends and artists. / I guess it was a silly thing for me to do….a dream to chase that would finally give myself so…
To all my wonderful friends and artists. / I guess it was a silly thing for me to do….a dream to chase that would finally give myself some freedom…. / I must try to remind myself, through the constant tears and aches and pains from the accident, that I am alive and have learned another lesson in life. / Learning lessons in life is a humbling and even sometimes a humiliating thing. / Owning the lesson and humility and humiliation I think is important. / Who do I have to own it to but the universe and this site is connected to the planet and then down to all of you. / (IF that made much sense). / I truly love you guys here on RedBulbble. / You stick with me even when I can’t find the connections in my brain to at least spend a few hours commenting on your unbelievable works. / I think the only people who can truly understand the quirkiness of the whys and cans and cannots of a person with a brain injury is another person with a brain injury….maybe….lol. / So, yes, although I still have no recollection whatsoever of what happened, what I do know is that I was pulling out of a parking spot at the grocery store and turning into the bend in front of the store. / The next thing I remember is choking and seizing on the ground. / A LOT of people were around me and holding my head. I heard a lot of voices…frantic…and I saw the face of my dear friend Judy hovering over mine crying and frantic as well….which made me cry and feel frantic, lol…. As I was told the story by my friend who happened to be driving her car right in front of me as we were together because I wanted to get more experience o the bike with someone with me; that I seemed to for no reason whatsoever suddenly accelerate straight into a parked vehicle. / It threw me from the bike and the bike, I beleive is totaled. / After being admitted to the hospital, I apparently kept seizing. / Or maybe they admitted me b/c I kept seizing at the scene and in the ER….I can’t remember. / Anyway, I later left against medical advice….I HAD TO…..b/c there was trouble on the home front. I live alone but….I had and have no lock on my door and there are some ….not so right…things going on out here. / I’ve been trying to find a way out… but with no help, it’s been almost impossible. / So I had to leave the hospital last night. / They, the doctors, were so upset about me trying to leave that they tried to hold me on a psychiatric (I’m guessing from my past event in February….) hold…..which I knew wouldn’t stick….but it gave them an additional 4-5 hours to try to convince me of why I needed to stay….all the while I was frantic to get to my motor home….and the boys (Mogley and Murphy) to make sure everything was safe. / I was getting information from a caregiver and a friend that things were NOT safe or proper and I knew I had to get back. / I must be cautious what I write as I don’t know who, in this area, reads my journals. / As my brain injury is physically located in the areas of frontal and limbic regions, both, of my brain, emotions are often very difficult to control. Those emotions are NEVER rage or anger, but are ALWAYS tears and feelings of total overwhelm-ness….(is that a word?) / I’m writing this but still not able to think very clearly. / The bike, I believe is a loss, although I’ve not seen it yet, as it is locked up out here, which was done after the accident….still not clear on that part…. I think it’s time to go home…..where my family is in Indiana….but the one thing I can’t deal with and can’t find a way to face is that they won’t allow my two life companions to come with me. I’m afraid I’ll land up back in that place I was in in February when I made such a serious attempt on my life if I have to lose them now after all these years. / I will have to give them up if I go home and after 15 years of loving companionship, I don’t know how I can…..so if there’s anyone reading that lives nearby me…in Western Wa area, or even around NW Indiana, or anywhere around it, that would be loving, LOVING, LOVING new owners to them….please contact me….I can’t write anymore…the very thought is tearing me to pieces. / I love you all. / Valerie
Hello all my friends here on Red Bubble I need to let you know that I will be away for a little while… Some of you will know tha…
Hello all my friends here on Red Bubble I need to let you know that I will be away for a little while… Some of you will know that both I and my family have been under a fair bit of stress lately with having to move house for renovations and so forth, also, that I have not been too well. Until now, I have been pushing myself to continue with my photography and time here on RB as much as I could – because I really WANTED to, because it made me feel better to still be able to ‘create’... Well – unfortunately it finally got to the point where I have had to admit that I need a total ‘break’ from everything (well – I’m not exactly talking about abandoning my kids here though…. reality still ‘rules’...lol) if I am not to literally ‘drive myself to the hospital’. Then – to just drive this point home to me a little more thoroughly, my beloved computer decided that it would make sure I stick to this by requiring a ‘hospital break’ itself – yes – it just ‘died’ – and I delivered it to the computer hospital this morning :((( So often that is the way of things – I have not believed in ‘coincidences’ any more for a long time. Better my computer in hospital than me. So – I will now be ‘resting and hopefully finally recovering’ from these past months of far too much stress. My daughter has been hassling me to read the ‘Twilight’ series for months… maybe I’ll finally get around to doing that now – until this moment my art always taken priority. Now – my computer has made sure it can’t. I will miss you – all my friends. Maybe I will be able to drop in occasionally on someone else’s computer to see how things are getting on in the land of RB. I will not be properly back myself though until my computer has ‘recovered’ – which I am told may be a week or more :((((( And – who knows? I may be inspired to arrive back on RB with some images of amazing, superhumanly beautiful vampires????? (anyone know of a model capable looking that ‘good’ lol?) Kallena
This was done in retrospect to a difficult time I realized I had ‘gotten through’, while it can be ‘over’ it can leave its wearying marks.
Saved from Death and worse than death; / Another soul to live! / Our Sister Susan, here, draws breath; / For you were kind to give. Poem® 19 Nov 2009, Dayonda Stribling / www.redbubble.com / __ When we first met Susan on a mission to a rural village in Central Desert Africa in April 2007, she was in the later stages of death. Her body was infested with intestinal worms. Medicines would not work. I prayed for her in the village, along with two other mission volunteers. We left to continue our journey. But God spoke to me, and we returned that evening and put her in our old battered vehicle and brought her to our mission centre. We continued to pray and command death to leave her alone. 5 days later and God had completely healed her. Now as you see, Susan is completely healed. / She shares her testimony with us on missions into other villages and many have also received healing and hope. Praise God! Please help us to continue to reach others in need and extreme poverty. ALL PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF MY ART, PLUS DONATIONS MADE TO PHILADELPHIA MISSION CHARITY, GOES TO HELP EXTREME POOR AND SICK IN REMOTE AND RURAL VILLAGES IN AFRICA. WE NEVER TAKE ANYTHING OUT OF YOUR GIVING. ALL CHARITY OVERHEADS ARE COVERED BY OUR MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS. www.Philadelphia33.org
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