I had a couple of friends ask me how I made the collages on my blog. The way I have done it is through Picasa. Download it first :). Then put the picture you want to use into the tray. You will see the tray on the left hand bottom portion of the screen. You then hit collage on the menu at the bottom. It will give you a preview of the collage. There are different way you can experiment with as far as making one. Once you are finished and have saved the collage one of the options below on the menu is to blog it or what I did was just save it and then bring it on to my blog by using the picture tool button when creating a post. It is the button next to the ABC Check mark. I absolutely love Picasa just a picture tool in general. Have fun with it!
I am doing okay. I have taken on a third job just for the week as a family that is like family to ours is having a family emergancy, as in extreme emergency. You know one thing about living in a rural community versus a urban is that we are attached. I have no choice but to help out my community because I am a part of it. I wish this philosophy extended into the school. But really when one family is hurting here everyone steps in to help them. In the city we were cut from that and I think that is such a huge part of me as a person, needing that family. I realize in urban Alaska people do work together, I just feel because I see all 300 + people of our town almost daily I know them "more" then I did in Fairbanks and Anchorage. In any case I hope all works out for my friends, and I hope you are all doing well. HEY I just a lightbulb switch on. Do you suppose because we come from Rural Alaska and we do better in our intensives together because we have that bond that we are so familiar with? I am not sure, but you are all dear to me and it is so nice when I do get to see you all!
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Those collages are really quite stunning. Picasa is available for both Mac and Windows, by the way.
I love your comments about living in a small village and how that experience shapes your life. Good lessons there, for everyone.
I think you could be right about that bond thing having an effect on the intensives. I know I feel closer to you all than I do the students I see in class two or three times a week. When my mom was in the hospital it was the Native people we know who really took care of us. Mom had many visitors but as nice as these people were it was just different when people who live that community spirit were with us. The older I get the more I can't wait to get back out there among the "real people."
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