One Little Word - April

I'm continuing on my journey with Kindness this year and all of my regular blog readers are familiar with my Year of Kindness Project  which so far feels like it is going quite well.

For April, Ali's assignment was to capture our word in photos and to perhaps add a full page photo of ourselves with journaling directly on the photo (specifically about something we wanted to "let go" of in our lives but I didn't do that bit of it). Since I am working in a smash book instead of with the recommended size materials, I always have to adapt a bit. Here is what I came up with:

 This is my two page spread. The collage shows some of the small ways kindness has been active in my life so far this year. Self-kindness is the form of a visit with my sister and fresh flowers to photograph, unexpected kindness when Rachel and Becca shoveled the sidewalk, kindness from the Universe when I spotted an entire flock of robins in January while doing laundry, kindness from Sarah who purchased the cute little giraffe that I fell in love with at Eastern Market - the artist creates these from old soda cans - this was from an Arizona Tea can.  And finally - that canvas - was gifted to the daughter of a good friend. This young girl is currently undergoing in-patient therapy for amplified pain that has left her in a wheelchair since January. She loves to dance and can't wait to be back on her feet. I hadn't planned the canvas for her, but realized once it was done it was perfect for her. So off it went to her hospital room!

Here's a close up of the treatment added to the right-hand page. I haven't done a good selfie in a while so I used a small print of my blog photo which just seemed to be perfect for this page. And journaled about my experiences with kindness around the elements of the page.