An Important Boundary!

Paint Party Friday

 This week I will continue to share a few more
 pages as well as a short video of the 
completed booklet I made for my dear 
friend! I'm still blown away at

how much it pleased her! 

Cupcake figures my friend probably 
appreciates how the booklet expresses
many of the  components of who she is!
 I hadn't thought of it that way, but
 I guess we all hope people will see
our true essence with all the little
nuances of who we are!

I also read a quote that said 

"Whenever someone creates something

with all their heart, then that creation

is given soul" The Cat Returns 2002

It was such a joy to honor all my friends assets

in such a special way! Even though I don't love

all the artwork....it was intuitively expressed

with so much love, night after night!!

On another note, we're still at the
 pioneering stages of  social media
 with proper  boundaries not completely 
worked out!  I do imagine it will come in 
time. Not without some regret along the way!!

Recently I watched a few of the instagram

stories that really disturbed me!! One,

a granddaughter showed her Nana

struggling to get up a step with her walker!

While a favourite celebrity videoed her 

aging mother without her front teeth in!
I shudder to think what these older women
would feel if they were aware!

Neither of these lovely female Influencers
 meant any harm. Both are truly beautiful souls!

They just weren't thinking. I felt a bit squeamish 
as I  watched these older women 
on camera. Albeit a few seconds it was still
disturbing and invasive. All the while so 
grateful knowing my daughter would
 would never expose me in that light!

I'm sure both ladies thought their 

adoration was worth sharing. However 

I'm not sure they were aware at how

those being filmed might feel if they

knew it was being shared 
 publicly to a very large audience!

I think this is a really important 

conversation worth having  with 

our loved ones as we age!
After all don't we all want to
star in our own show looking 
our best!

Cupcake knows what a proud

woman I have always been.

  I've never left my house without makeup

 and hair done. I have no doubt 

she will always protect my dignity 
as I continue to age!

My mother was a proud hairdresser.

Who never left her  house without
lipstick and hair done too!
So when she passed  in
palliative care,  my brother 
and I did her hair and makeup!

 Just like she would expect us to!
That way those who would see

  our mom next, would be presented

with the woman she would want

them to see. The beautiful proud 

woman who was loved by her 

family! Not the woman the

Cancer forced her to become!

                            Ask yourself how you would

want the world to see you

if the choice was no

longer yours?

I wonder if those proud women

sharing their aging relatives

publicly  would want to 

be seen without their teeth

or struggling with a walker?

Pretty sure the answer would

be  an emphatic NO, and that
"Do unto others as you would have
 them do unto you" still applies!

 

I hope you will enjoy this very quick video

of my Booklet... the colour and sheen 

are so much  nicer on video.