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15/11/2015

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Hah! My website says 'drag your element here' meaning text/image etc  :-)

My element is earth (see yesterday's post.)

Have you figured out what yours is? Or have you always known? And does your current lifestyle chime with it?

My second favourite element is air. I like flying, and have done a little gliding and ballooning which I adored. I like flying a kite. My paintings have a lot of empty space in them which I think of as air. Oddly I don't much like the wind (except for the kite flying of course), though a gentle breeze is pleasant. On the west coast of Scotland the air is almost always moving, never stagnant or heavy or stifling.  I always feel I can breathe easily. I like that if the air indoors needs freshened we simply open a window, and I love the smell of washing that has been dried outside.

The air here is sweet and pure, as evidenced by the lichens on trees and rocks. There is very little traffic (we are fifteen miles from the nearest small town) and we are not on the flightpath to anywhere important. A little sea plane is the only regular flight to go over and that mostly in the summer months. We had a wonderful flight on it once. Have you time to join us for a couple of minutes of it? (videos 1 and 2) The last few minutes where we came down onto the River Clyde in the middle of the city were the most exciting!

If I could be any kind of animal it would be a bird I think. I have used the image of birds to represent freedom in paintings - a flight of imagination!

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Is air your element?
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ChompyChipmunk
16/11/2015 03:37:15 am

That landing on the River Clyde is quite something -- it's a bit unnerving as well as exciting with all the bridges and so on!

My element is water (the test you suggested agreed with that) and I've almost always lived within easy walking distance of very large and/or important bodies of water, being lakes and rivers. When I've visited places that are inland with little water, it feels oddly disjointed, no matter how beautiful or wonderful the place. On the other hand, the fact that there is water nearby doesn't necessarily mean everything will be peachy -- far from it! It just feels more natural somehow.

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Freda
16/11/2015 02:54:22 pm

The landing was brilliant! (They don't do it now.) Feeling natural is a good description of being in your element.

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Lotta link
16/11/2015 10:14:55 am

The sea plane flight looks fun. My favourite element is air, although I think it chose me rather than the other way around! I do love it though and as a child I truly believed I could fly (and sometimes still wonder...) and I loved a scenic flight I had in a helicopter. Despite a fear of heights I've always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon. I enjoy being up on top of a hill on a windy day and leaning against the wind.
The Ayurvedic view of the elements is interesting too.

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Freda
16/11/2015 02:57:03 pm

A hot air balloon is the nearest thing to a magic carpet! I note the Ayurvedic view includes a fifth element - space.

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cath
17/11/2015 07:33:49 am

Air, fresh and with the fragrance of something in bloom, air moist with the smell of toadstools and leaves falling, sky with a patch of blue, puffy,white clouds, a breeze moving the grass like a wave in a football stadium, wind making the tree tops on our lawn dance, storm like today, howling, blessed be the air that we breathe, love it all.

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Freda
17/11/2015 08:22:31 am

....and I love your beautiful descriptions.

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