Wet Beautiful Refreshing WATER

I've been thinking about water.

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This is a random blog post for the first day of November,

and these little angel girls should be wearing sweaters

and rain boots if they are going wading

(clicking here will take you to this art print and others available for sale)

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~ but I still have summer in my heart ~

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So, allow me to ignore Autumn just for a few moments?
The subject of "water" being on my mind

resulted from finding some tubes of my watercolor paints

that had become hardened ~ and before I threw them out,

I thought I'd see if I could restore their softness

~ to become usable again ~

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Some were just partially hard, so I poked into the tube with

a pick and let some water drip into them,

and set them upright to allow the water to permeate.

Others were completely dried out

and I removed the lids and let the tubes soak in water

for two days... and the water softened even them.

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Water can soften the hardest watercolor pigment,

it takes longer when something is completely dry,

water will just pour off, but let it soak in

and see what happens!

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Sometimes it seems my heart

has become hardened

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as

if

living

in a

dry

desert

place

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I long to wade into streams of Living Water

to dive into and splash in

the river of water that refreshes and cleanses

and nourishes my heart, spirit and soul.

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Refreshing Softening Cleansing Nourishing

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W A T E R

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softens even the hardest places.

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(It is pouring rain today in the Pacific Northwest

so these thoughts on water can also be an Autumny post)

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~ Violet ~-

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Watercolor painting by Violet Skiles

Scriptures about living water can be found in John 4:10 and 7:38