When I am stressed, nothing helps me cope as much as my art journaling does so when I am extremely stressed as I have been this week, with the disagreements among the members of my beloved homeschool group, I art journal like crazy. Crocheting is a nice hobby and it is somewhat relaxing, but it is nothing like art for helping with my stress. My family is so glad that I didn't obsessively take up a more annoying hobby, like playing the bagpipe, that they just deal with my art obsession and the mess it brings. Here are some things I've been working on this week. I have also been working, going to see mom, minimally keeping our house going and cooking so it's not totally a case of "Nero fiddled while Rome burned." I'm not totally abandoning my responsibilities to art journal.
I would like to see the results of art on a functional MRI to see what effect it has on the brain. Some of it is good, some of it is not, but as long as I get engrossed in what I am doing and feel less stressful, it's worth it to me to keep doing it.
As to what happened with my homeschool group? Two mama bears, defending their cubs and the subsequent emotional fallout. :-(
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