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What Did I Do with the Creative Page?

This week we had the option to eavesdrop on a conversation or get super creative with a blank page with little dots on it. I found both to be challenging yet both were super easy, in my opinion. I think people eavesdrop everyday whether they admit it or not, I mean it's so simple to do! Sit on a hallway bench or wait in line at the tuck and you are guaranteed to hear an ongoing conversation. I found myself not listening to anyone, which has to be a lie because I go to class and wander the hallways just like every other UPJ student does. I guess I should say that I didn't hear anything juicy enough to retrieve from my memory and share with you so I apologize for that. Due to this minor hiccup this week I chose to do the other prompt option.

The other prompt in our journals was titled, "Ask the person nearest to you what you should do with this page." The person that was nearest to me at the time was my roommate who I will keep unnamed due to this blog being so public. She will also remained unnamed because I did not ask her permission to use her name in this blog. Anyway, after I asked her she thought for a minute and answered, with a childish grin on her face, "Fill it with pictures that make you happy." So I did exactly that. I took her answer very literally and took pictures I had hanging on my wall and taped them together and put them into my journal. Now I do not plan on keeping these here because I would like to return them to my wall. I do plan on printing out wallet sized versions of them and gluing or taping them into my journal because I would like to look back one day and see how I thought and approached things compared to how I will in the future.

I chose four pictures off of my wall to put into my journal. The pictures I chose to put in my journal were all made up of family members, except one. One picture included two people who were not blood relation but I still consider them family. I chose these pictures because my family is one of the most important things in my life. I come from a big family. My mother is one of five just to give some perspective. I was raised to believe that even when you have nothing you still have family and I agree with the way I was raised. One picture in my journal, the one on the far left, is of my great grandmother, my mother, and myself. This picture is the most meaningful to me on the page. My great grandmother passed away a year ago on September 16, 2016. I will not go into much further detail but my grandmother was a very strong influence on our big family and the way we came together and celebrated holidays. After her passing everything changed. My family came together after losing such an important and influential member and helped each other grieve and heal, if you consider someone can heal in a year because I can't. I feel the rest of the pictures in my journal help show that strong bond of family. They are the reason my heart is so full.

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