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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 10:49 am
Post subject: The Best Setting to Listen to Nicks music??
Were is your favourite place to enjoy the sounds of Nicks brilliant albums ? maybe you have a different setting for each album ? what do you like to do while listening to the albums drink? smoke? who with, when?
Maybe some personal issues that you dont want to reveal but give it a go.
I will add mine soon
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 3:16 pm
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When I first got into Nick I used to put the LPs on when I got into bed and listen as I fell asleep - problem was I used to stay awake to listen as I loved it so much.
The most memorable time was after my band finished a day of sessions for the album we recorded a couple of years ago. Me, the studio engineer & our accordion player sat and listened to Pink Moon at 1am with a bottle of wine to wind down. Wonderful.
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A few weeks ago, on a Friday night, I wasn't able to sleep. I ended up staying awake until 9 in the morning, but I watched the sun rise on Saturday as I listened to Saturday Sun out on the porch with scones and tea. Pure bliss.
I also have the same problem as Matt did. I put on Five Leaves Left or Pink Moon but often stay awake to listen and later realize its nearly 3am...
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When i first bought Five Leaves Left i used to lay in bed in my dark little student hovel wishing i was a world away. The images the lyrics and music conjured up saved me from the black eyed dogs, i would stay in my room alone for three/four days at a time with about five LP's for company. Miles Davis -Kind Of Blue, Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left, John Martyn - One World and London conversation and Fairport Conventions - Unhalfbricking. people thought i was some kind of skint howard hughs. Althought Five Leaves Left brings back some haunting memories im addicted to it, its part of who i am now and every syllabel has ressonance with me.
Bryter Layter has a happier background i had by now left university and come back to the home town never wanted to return to but i had to through the neccessity of nearly killing my self with the drink. I found myself a job as a salmon fisherman on the river tweed with an older group of guys, we spent long hours breaking our backs for little to no pay but every second was magical. Every day when i retuirned home id put Bryter Layter on, the music and lyrics seemed to be a perfect match for the scenery i was part of everyday. Northern Sky just takes me back to glancing across the tweed towards Berwick-upon-Tweed on a freezing spring morning around 5 in the morning rain beating down, but then the sun broke through and everything was absolutly magical. I used to walk a couple miles home put the lp on and drift into an afternoon kip with a cuppa sitting in the yard at the back of my house.
Pink Moon again just evokes memories of a certain time in my life, when the fishing season was over i took a job in a nightclub in the town. Busy nights with namless house music pumping coursing through my body was torture, arguing with pissed up teenage males full of stella or unnatractive single mothers trying to take you home. but i used to walk home every night with my headphones in through the deserted streets and across the field home, id stop and take a look up at the autumn moon and listen to things behind the sun or pink moon and just be in awe of nature.
Nicks Music grabbed me and shook me from the first time i heard it. i unintentionally bought the music in chronological order , only through lack of funds being able to purchase and album evry once in a while. thankyou for listening
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Last year I was on my friends boat gliding along the Thames near Henley-on-Thames on a warm summers day. We played FLL and Pink Moon and it was perfect.
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Gosh - Pink Moon at 1am! isn't that around the time it was recorded?!
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I used to help out on school trips to Paris for kids and I would always load up with some good things to listen to for the 18 hour journey from Glasgow. I have very vivid memories of listening to Bryter Later at around 2am on the way down when everyone else had pretty much settled for a bit of sleep as we drove on and on towards Dover. It was about the only peace I got for the whole week we were away!
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I have a very intense personal memory of listening to Bryter Later and particularly Hazey Jane in a college room in 1976. Let's just say it involves mutual seduction.
We've been happily married for 30 years this coming August. Every time I hear Hazey Jane I recall that very special moment.
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uh oh!
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 4:33 pm
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Listening to Nick whilst driving around Tanworth In Arden is a pretty nice experience - the music seems to be a part of the fabric of that place. I was driving into the village the other week (down Vicarage Hill) listening to River Man - doesn't get much better than that
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Stay up all night, at sunrise open my window and sit on the ledge five floors up, stare at the sky as the sun comes up and put pink moon on. (spliff optional)
Retire to bed with a mug of green tea an sink into a deep sleep
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I like listening to it in the morning. When nobody is awake but I.
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Post subject: Aw, memories!
Best place for me was the Isle of Lewis. I just have to play "Clothes of Sand" or "Road" and I'm back there! Sitting on a pristine beach, watching the waves lap, see the turquoise waters...oh yes.
Otherwise, it's the equivalent of him sitting by the bed, singing a lullaby.
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Jesamine that sounds brilliant
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Name: Dana Joy
Location: Logan Square
Size: 1700 sq. ft.
When Dana moved to her current apartment last August she started over - she moved in only two pieces of furniture. She has collected everything else this past year, utilizing all the shopping resources Chicago has to offer from the thrift shops and antique malls to DWR's warehouse sale. She compliments the furnishings she has chosen with long-loved pieces from her childhood and an enviable collection of contemporary art. The apartment is sunny and inviting, with windows on all three sides and a deck overlooking the garden.
Years lived in: Approaching my first year anniversary.
Inspiration: The feel of my 70�s childhood and the natural world.
My style: Sunny, relaxed, plush and colorful with sophisticated touches thrown in.
Favorite room: My bedroom. It�s got big windows, great light and a tree lined view. The colors are soothing and it�s incredibly restful. The bedding is rich and textured and makes me so happy.
Most talked about element: I hear all the time that the place just feels good or that it has good energy. I couldn�t ask for a greater compliment.
Most embarrassing element: I don�t know if embarrassed is the right sentiment but I�m not a fan of the Amityville Horror blood red walls in the entryway. The former tenant, painted them, but she painted over existing wallpaper and I guess I�m dreading that project the most. It�s next on my list.
Proudest DIY: Tie: the gold painted pressed tin ceiling in the living room and my collection of 60�s & 70�s ceramics.
Dream source: Art galleries around the world. If only. But I�d also take a shopping spree at Todd Merrill in NYC any day of the week.
Reality source: The Ark, Brown Elephant, Mt. Sinai thrift stores and various and sundry antique stores and malls. I�ve also bought some pieces at DWR and Knoll but those are few and far between.
Best advice: There is nothing I�ve found quite so satisfying as surrounding myself with things that move me and getting to wake up to and live amongst them every day. It�s not about quantity either, but I would advise anyone to search out those things, trust me, it will change your life!
Found treasure: My 1960�s Nagel candelabra
Had forever: I have so much great stuff from my childhood -the needlepoint pillows were hand made by my mom circa 1972. I just had the backs replaced and re-stuffed with fresh down. Many of my housewares are from that time, also passed down to me from my mom. She was this incredibly modern woman with amazing taste and vision. I have original Dansk wood bowls, enameled Copco oven-to-table cookware in great shapes and colors, handmade earthenware bowls and serving pieces and then there�s my prize - my mom�s brick red porcelain Villeroy & Boch china; it was her wedding china. OK, it was her third wedding but it �s still so hip.
Just got: My living room sofa. It�s from the Ark Thrift store. The tag attached to one of the pillows said it was custom made for a Mr. Martin Price and I�d guess it�s from the 60�s. It�s in near mint condition with beautiful, soft upholstery; it probably lived most of its life in plastic seat covers. I�m going to replace the casters with cylindrical polished chrome legs to push its look into the 70�s. I�m completely jazzed about it.
I met Dana at an event she invited AT to last month and she expressed interest in having AT:Chicago do a House Tour. It was a pleasure to visit and photograph her home. Thanks Dana! -janel
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How can you talk about the bedroom without mentioning that wonderful ceiling?
A great apartment with some nice architectural details.
Oh, to have a bedroom that fits the bed AND a couch!
Beautiful light and warmth, Dana.
Really nice work you have done there.
I love the rainbow pillow on the couch!
Wow what a place! Could it be more light filled, cozy and clutter-free? I love all the artifacts of her 70's childhood. This lady has some seriously passionate good taste...what would it take to get her over to my place to give it the magic touch? I'm now truly envious and inspired.
Lovely. And thank you for the photos of the after-dinner and of the kitchen in use- it's nice to see that homes are lived in.
those ceilings! how wonderful. your place really seems great.
We love it. So different from what you left behind, and that was gorgeous too!
Such a lovely, warm inviting space. The gold ceiling is so glamorous!! Just beautiful!
I am so envious of your light and airy apartment! The cross-stitched pillows on the sofa are fantastic, but my personal favorite is the candelabra on the dining table. A real treasure!
Boy I love it! Great apartment! You have done a marvelous job. I love how light it is. I am getting ready to move back to Chicago soon and now I'm even more anxious to be there.
Great place...great taste!
The ceilings are fabulous, and the dining room chairs are wonderful.
Your place makes me pine for my old vintage apartment -- and I never thought anything could ever make me do that! Simply wonderful, from the bright and lived-in kitchen to the comfy and spacious bedroom. Congrats on making such a fine home!
Wow, you've done a fabulous job, Dana! The bedroom is definitely my favorite. I am in love with the D above the drawers, and I can't imagine how wonderful it must be to curl up on the bedroom couch on a sunny afternoon with a good book. It's beautiful and personal -- exactly how a home should be.
Since I couldn't you see on our recent visit I am thrilled to get a peak at your new space. The apartment is dynamic and soothing in the same breath -just like you.
I love your bedroom, too. Would you share what colors are on your walls?
WOW, Dana! What a gorgeous apt...I share your feelings on the red wall...I'd love to help you change it..I have a steamer that would help...Missed seeing the floor lamp in your d.r....Love you!...congratulations..it's truly great.
Anna & Dan said it before me: love the couch in the bedroom but, boy, does it make me envious. The sunlight in your place is really great and makes me kick myself for going garden level. But I don't leave this post filled with jealousy, really. I like what you've done and how you did it. Makes me smile.
LOVELY. one of my favorite tours yet!
This is the kind of place that needs to be featured in a magazine because it looks artful and not professionally styled. Yoo hoo, Domino! Elle Decor! Wake up!
just wanted to say a big thank you to all the people who've commented on my space-it means so much to me, you have no idea.
To answer the paint color question, the walls in the living room are Ralph Lauren studio white and the bedroom is (I only have the number left on an old can of paint) Ralph Lauren GH61. It's a pale sage green. Hope that helps.
Love your home!
Is the paint color in your dining room studio white as well?
Beaytiful apartment! And I love that coffee table! Do you know anything about it?
Love the Peter Max-like needlepoint pillow on the sofa (and everything else!), boy does that bring back memories!
I LOVE your place - so open and sunny. Your friends are right - great energy and very welcoming. I love the contrast of the victorian-type ceiling with your modern mix. Love your 'D', too - that's a great letter! Really nice...thanks for sharing.
Did you click on the slide show link?
That's the Spun Light by Flos...
I got the coffee table at the Ark on Lincoln Avenue and I know nothing about it's orgins. I would guess it's from the 80's? It's so glam. It's a heavy mother too.
Someone else asked about the color in my dining room and I am so sorry but I don't have the can or remember the name, it's a soft grey, has some blue in it. It's Benjamin Moore.
I can't believe there have been two house tours this week that have managed to avoid getting any nasty posts whatsoever - astounding!
Really nice work Dana!
That's cuz there's no photo of the Amityville Horror wall...
ooo creepy the code I have to enter has 666 in it!
The entire place is absolutely beautiful; very light and airy. I love the "D" in the bedroom. Very Laverne & Shirley-esque.
very nice space - this looks like the kind of place that would have a clawfoot tub - does it? I didn't notice any bathroom pics.
Love "D" over your dresser - and the pillowcases. I also love the lamp to the left of your bed - is that an Adler lamp?
Love the tin ceiling and the openess - high ceilings are amazing when you can get them.
question - where is logan square? my family is from wicker park - my grandmother went through the great depression in chicago - some of my family are still living there. My uncle was raised there and my great aunt still teaches ballroom weekly at 82 yrs old.
Love your place! Your home just glows -- and it is not merely a quality of the light or the colours, but the naturalness and sensitivity with which it has been put together. Your home radiates harmony; it makes me feel good just seeing it over the computer screen! (actually, it is quite fitting your last name is Joy, come to think, because that is the quality your home has...)
I know this is probably a useless question, but I'll ask anyway... I am particularly taken by your acqua/turquoise D -- where did you find it?? The font is really great! I am desperate to find a T (for my daughter) in something similar. If you ever manage to find one, please, please think of me! I have been looking for something like this ever since she was born, but just haven't come across anything...
Really Beautiful Job. You have managed that incredibly difficult balance of decorated without being "overdone" and lived in without being sloppy...this means you have talent.
I too liked the green color in the bedroom and have found it: Ralph Lauren Greenhouse Collection, Allium Green (GH61).
i like the way this space feels cohesive -- using the same color palette throughout the apartment helps bring it together despite the eclecticism of the furniture and knicknacks. i also love how even though you don't have tons of art hanging on each wall, and the few pieces you do have are very small, AND the walls in the living and dining areas are white, the walls still don't seem bare. i think that's a really difficult balance to maintain and one that i'm really trying to work on in my own space.
I really love the paintings that are hanging over that great couch in your bedroom, I'm curious to know who painted them. Thanks for sharing your home, it's so light and beautiful!
I believe I'm smitten with the rug under the dining table. Any chance we could see a close up. The colors are fantastic and I'm assuming there is tufting and texture.
You have great stuff... Just the right amount of 70's without it being a pastiche or "out of the box" modern. Well done!
Just looked at the slide show... Not sure how I missed that...
Those needlepoint pillows rock.
Logan Square is just Northwest of Wicker Park, bounded by Diversey on the North, Armitage on the South, Western on the East and Pulaski on the West. These are approximations, of course: I've seen apartments well in the heart of the Puerto Rican Humboldt Park area advertised as Logan Square. (This is changing as Humboldt Park becomes more desirable - that's Real Estate for you.)
Anyway, Logan Blvd, part of Chicago's Boulevards Landmark spaces, ends at an actual square where it meets Milwaukee Ave. The houses facing the square are truly gorgeous. Click my name for more.
where did you find the pillowcases on the bed...i have been looking for something modern and brightly colored like those!
Hey Dana,
Just visited your site and congrats you have achieved where you are, a wonderful place to be. You have taken your time in picking the right peices and it shows, can't wait to see it in person.
First i want to say again, THANK YOU everyone for all your comments. This has been so awesome for me. Forgive me for being MIA these past few days, now I'm ready to answer some questions:
Veronica - I got the pillow cases at ABC Carpet and Home in NYC. They have a great website where I'm sure you could find them.
Corbet- the rug is from the Ravenswood Antique Mall and it's a Rya rug which is a Finnish rug, this one's from the sixties. I don't have a tighter shot unfortunately but it's lime green with white, red, orange and yellow in it. It would be even brighter if I would take it to get professionally cleaned one of these days.
Holly - Logan Square is an old neighborhood very close to Wicker Park-just north and a touch west with lots of turn-of-the-century mansions on an historic boulevard that runs through it. Logan Boulevard. It's got a great preservation society- one that guards and values it's architecture from tear downs which I really appreciate. It's very green and beautiful and as yet under-developed and I hope it stays that way.
Lizzy - yes! Allium Green-that's it! and thanks so much for your words...
Jen- the paintings I found at of all places - Paper Boy on Belmont. It's a stationery store owned by the same guy that owns Uncle Fun. He found all these primitive/naiive paintings by a man who signed his paintings MANAS. They were all of women and were painted in the 50's and 60's. he found them all I believe in a basement of a buidling he bought. He showed them in the small gallery space in Paper Boy and I bought them a few years ago.
Monika - my boyfriend saw an old light industrial building coming down that had the words "Painting & Decorating" in the sign. He went by and took all the letters and gave me the D as a gift. He thinks he has a "t" that he'd be interested in parting with for a small price. I would be happy to put him in touch with you. Just let me know how.
Lastly, Anna - thanks for being so generous and cordial and helpful in answering questions in my absence.
Most sincerely,
dana joy
Just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com !!!!
monika, he will be emailing you direct.
For some strange reason, I feel like I already know you. I think it's because the house looks so damn inviting. Have to ask though, where did you find the candleabra (slides 20 and 22)? I've seen variations of it where the pieces are placed randomly together creating an interesting sculptural display. I've also seen them on ebay, but all were in the UK. Thanks for the help in advance.
Oh, by the way, I just painted a red wall in my foyer also -- and no, it was not a fun project.
¡gracias snra.!
mark, that is the most awesome compliment yet I do believe.
why, thank you sir. the candelabra was purchased at Modern Times, formerly on Milwaukee and now on Grand and Leavitt. It was in the window when I first saw it and it haunted me for quite a long time. Then I went back and it was still there and I snapped it up. I have seen other variations as well and individual pieces here and there, too. Ravenswood and Edgewater antique malls have had the individual pieces for sale, I've seen them a few times here and there. Ebay too, like you, I've seen them. There was a spread in Met Home recently that featured a man who used the pieces together as his fireplace screen, it was very cool.
You have incredible taste. I loved everything, including the wonderful ceilings. You mention you did them yourself. Do you have any suggestions on where to look for how to do this? I live in a vintage apartment with some nice period details, but there is a drop ceiling in the bedroom! I'd love to do away with it.
well, Kerry the beautiful ceilings and all the architectural details were here when I moved in, I just spackled and painted the ceiling in the living room. So my DIY is really just the paint. My only thought for you is to peak under the drop ceilings, see what's there and if possible, install pressed tin yourself.
Say, has anyone out there installed tin ceilings themselves?
I'll ask Janel if she knows too. Hang on a sec...
Hi Dana,
I was wondering where you got the dining room table- it is awesome! I would like one just like that but in white. Any hints would be helpful!
Hi, I got the dining table at the Mt. Sinai thrift store on Diversey. It looked close enough to a parson's table but with rounded edges. It is white. Yo mean the dining room table not the marble low coffee table right?
I was just wondering where you got your dresser from. I have been searching far and wide for a simple dresser and I love the way yours works with your bedroom!
that is an old Heywood Wakefield dresser from the 40's. I purchased it many years ago at a now defunct antique store on Webster in Chicago. There's a place in Three Oaks, Michigan called Springdale that specializes in Heywood Wakefield so google them an dcheck them out. Hope that helps!
I know I'm about a year late. You have a beautiful place. If you ever want to sell your Nagel Candelabra, please know that I am interested. I have been looking all over for just that one piece to compliment my vintage Saarinen table.
Thank you.
p.s. or better yet know of a place where I can find one! :)
Thanks again!
A long awhile ago (over a year), I think I remember seeing some simliar candelabras at revival in chicago. They might still have them or, if not, they might know where to look.
a year's worth of comments and no one said anything about the big peanut sitting on her coffee table? It is awesome!
Wow...everything is so different but works amazingly well together.
I could stare at their ceiling all day with one heckuva a grin.
Hi Dana - I love your style, sense of placement, and unique flair. On slide 8 can you tell me what the pen and ink (or black paint) wall print is (maker, and where you found), as well as the "folk" art type portraits on slide 28 (maker, and where you found)? One more oooh, that wasn't mentioned in over a year were your luxurious white dining chairs. I'm drooling. Thanks so much for sharing your space, it made my evening!
hi there, I had no idea that over a year later I'd acquired some new comments so I hope you get this. The black and white drawing that you liked in slide 8 is by a local artist named William O'Brien. His website is www.wobwobwob.com and he's represented by Western Exhibitions.
The other paintings are intuitive/outsider art that I picked up at a store owned by a man who foud a pile of paintings all by the same man from the 60's and 70's in a basement storage space of a building he bought.
I really appreciate your comments so thanks very much.
dana joy
hi Dana,
Your apartment is extremely inspiring!
(I noticed it a while ago, when they first published this) I found the 70s/80s "theme" VERY well done. You have great eye!! The first question I can think of is where you got, and who did that picture in your third image in the slide show. The diagonal checkered picture. I LOVE it!! Your place is super inspiring! I know its been a while since you did this, so I'm curious what your place looks like now!! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Dana,
If you ever see this again.... I LOVE the pillowcases on your bed, and I went hunting for them at ABC Carpet & Home today, but the salesgirl in bedding didn't even recognize their description =( They are also not on their website. Is there any label on them that would indicate who makes them or what the style is? Do you remember how long ago you got them?
Thank you!
Nevermind about the pillowcases - I found them! They're made by Area, part of their "Four" collection, the pattern is called "Burst" and the color is "Pool".
dana, i fear i'm years too late. but if you should happen to read this, i'd love to know where your stunning dining room chairs are from. i'd hoped that someone would have already asked you that, but i couldn't find any comments that asked about the chairs! my email: email@example.com. i would love to hear from you. and your design choices are absolutely fabulous. great home tour!
so pleased that this post was resurrected in maxwell's newsletter. what great inspiration! thanks dana (:
Absolutely LOVE the dining room chairs.
Wow..............wow. Where o where did you stumble across a place that airy and so super nice in Logan Square??? The apartments I looked at in Logan Square all smelled like litterboxes and looked at brick walls. I'm jeolous!
hello, dana. your place is lovely. by chance do you know the shade of yellow you painted the sun porch in photo 17?
I am stumbling on this because of the yellow walls because I am in need of a good yellow and then enjoyed each and every picture of your place..you have great second hand buying karma my friend and you can pull it together.
I CAN'T express how much i ADORE your home. I live in an extremely small box-like studio apt in NYC and see much of my decor style reflected in your home-- while I'm constantly aware of sources of inspiration, now I will look to your slideshow for ultimate inspiration!
Thank you, it's absolutely beautiful!
70 comments and not one of them even slightly negative! That has to a once-off for AT!!! Well I certainly won't be changing that trend... loved every inch of this place... it's just perfect!
Help, how do I get that gold ceiling?
In a kitchen, tin is awesome, but in any room that doesn't get greasy/humid (and don't tell me your kitchen doesn't get greasy. It does.) you can get wallpaper with similar embossing. And then you paint it gold.


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Assembly Democrat Robb Kahl of Monona said he did not include F-D-A approval in his original version of the bill -- but he said it had to be added at the last minute, or the Republican-controlled Senate would not have passed it. Milwaukee Children's Hospital tells the Journal Sentinel that cannabidiol is an "exciting prospect." However, the manufacturing process can make the drug impure, and the American Academy of Neurology has not recommended it.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says lawmakers have done what they can -- and they cannot force doctors to prescribe the drug. Governor Scott Walker calls the situation frustrating, but he's not sure what can be done about it.


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by Diana Raab
"Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass." -Chuck T. Falcon
It has been said that creative persons, such as authors, artists, actors, musicians, performers and poets are more often plagued with the demon of depression than the general population. One of the possible explanations for this is that creative types tend to feel powerful emotions which aid their creative endeavors. In other words, some experts believe that being sensitive to one's surroundings, including sounds, colors and people's emotions, has been associated with both creativity and depression. Such hypersensitivity can lead people to worry about things with which other people aren't typically as concerned, thereby increasing the potential for depression.
If we examine the lives of accomplished artists, we will observe that many battled depression at some point in their lives. A few prominent examples are Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf, William Styron, Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. If you've ever been depressed, you probably understand the sense of helplessness and numbness which accompanies this illness. Sometimes this sense of helplessness drives creative individuals to the drawing or writing pad, but other times, it can be immobilizing.
The life of writer David Foster Wallace offers a more recent example, as he committed suicide secondary to depression. Experts have identified certain characteristics in his writing—such as hypersensitivity, constant rumination, and persistent contemplation—which researchers say can connect creativity with mental illness, especially bipolar disorder and depression. In this case, mental illness does not necessarily cause creativity, but a certain ruminating personality type may contribute to both mental health issues and artistic ability.
Some Theories Linking Depression and Creativity
First, some artists and writers admit to engaging in their craft as a kind of self-therapy for depression. In this way, their efforts to avoid depression may provide an incentive for their creative work that wards off melancholy.
Second, the experience of depression provides subject matter for artistic creations: Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" and Emily Dickinson's poem "There's a Certain Slant of Light" are two examples.
Third, some believe that one cannot truly comprehend or convey the human condition unless one has experienced the highest emotional highs and the lowest lows. Thus, depression provides the existential angst from which great art arises.
Approximately seven percent of the general population is affected by depression or bipolar disorder, and studies have shown that this number tends to be higher among creative types. Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of mania and major depression. Typically, someone who is manic depressive tends to swing from excessive highs (mania) to profound hopelessness (depression). In between these episodes, they experience feelings of normalcy. Some people can also have mixed symptoms of both mania and depression simultaneously, while others may have manic symptoms that are more moderate.
In his book "Van Gogh Blues," Eric Maisel proclaims that virtually one hundred percent of creative people suffer from episodes of depression. He supports this claim by asserting that every creative person came out of the womb ready to interrogate life and determine for herself what life would mean, could mean, and should mean. He believes that depression in creative individuals is thought of as a crisis caused by chronic, persistent uneasiness, irritation, anger, and sadness about the facts of existence and life's apparent lack of meaning. In fact, those who try to understand the reason for their own existence will most likely be more prone to depression.
Kay Redfield Jamison, a foremost expert on bipolar disorder who has also suffered from the disease since childhood, believes that most artistic geniuses are manic depressive. Jamison is the author of "Touched with Fire" and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her book makes a powerful link between depression and creativity.
When a writer is depressed, he or she may turn to their craft to ease the pain. The writing process can help the creative person make sense of their lives and validate what they are feeling. Writing brings us face-to-face with reality. The act of moving the pen across the page or the fingers on the keyboard can be meditative and calming. Expressing feelings helps to give meaning to life, which is helpful for us all!
Personally, I have found writing to be very therapeutic during tumultuous periods in my life. Writing my own recent memoir/self-help book, "Healing with Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey," proved to me that in times of depression, it is very helpful to try to be creative. Pick up a notebook and just start writing!
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6. Date your entry.
7. Begin by writing your feelings and sensations.
8. Write nonstop for 15-20 minutes.
9. Save what you have written.
10. Write regularly.
Diana Raab is a author of eight books and teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and in various conferences around the country. She frequently writes and speaks about journaling and her most recent memoir is Healing With Words: A Writer's Breast Cancer Journey (June 2010).
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The more books and article I read about self publishing, the more people I ask and the more research I do. The more questions I ask and research I do, the more torn I become.
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- Heat oven to 375° F. On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the carrots and orange with the oil, honey, 1 teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper.
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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Children who are being treated for cancer at Rady Children's Hospital have a new resource to help them get to and from chemotherapy.
Local businessman Richard Woltman has donated a new, specially-equipped transport van to the Emilio Nares Foundation, a kids' cancer support group.
The van joins a fleet of vehicles the foundation uses to take kids to and from cancer treatment and doctor's appointments at Rady Children's Hospital.
If we didn't have this van we wouldn't be coming to Rady's. I wouldn't jeopardize my daughter's health because her immune system gets too low. If I bring her on public transportation, she's more likely to get an infection," mother Silvia Johnson said.
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VERO BEACH - One step inside the door of Panaché Salon and Day Spa in Vero Beach and a client is instantly transported to Tuscany for relaxation and rejuvenation.
The dark-wood cabinets, rustic, earthy paint palette, wrought-iron accessories and cushiony furniture, pillows and rugs help time stand still during a day or afternoon of hair, nail or skin care at the upscale, yet accessible salon and day spa.
Panaché opened in May and has slowly grown its customer base by positive word-of-mouth recommendations, said owner Sheila King.
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LA CROSSE, WI (WTAQ) - A search continued at mid-day for a missing crew member from a tugboat that flipped over the roller gates on a Mississippi River dam just northwest of La Crosse.
The incident was reported around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday on the Minnesota side of the river at Lock and Dam Number 7 at Dresbach.
Three people were aboard the tugboat, and all were wearing life-jackets. Two made it to safety, and were treated at a La Crosse hospital for minor injuries.
Dave Brand, the sheriff of Winona County Minnesota, said the missing person was in the boat's middle deck. Brand said the boat lost power before going over the dam's roller gates.
The boat hit the water on its side. As of mid-morning, rescuers were waiting for a diver from the tugboat's owner before going inside.
At that point, Brand said it was too dangerous for outsiders to enter.
The Dresbach Dam is the same place where 11 people were rescued in late May, when a rented houseboat swept over the roller gates and capsized.
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Regression's a biatch (Game Recap: Cubs 5, Astros 11)
Has Carlos Silva run out of steam?
Those who watched last night's game know why I'm asking. For those who missed the Hutt's most recent gem, check this line: 1 IP, 7 H, 2 BB, 5 ER, 0 K. Frankly I'm surprised the Astros didn't score more runs, but if there's any team that can get nine base runners in an inning and only score five of them it's them. (If there were two such teams, it'd be them and us, of course.)
Carlos Silva doesn't appear to be in shape, really. I mean, not that I'm much of a beacon of health myself, but come on, this is professional athletics. Starting pitching require full exertion; maybe he's just out of bullets.
Another theory: you know how Larry Rothschild is rumored to have fixed Silva's mechanics, improving his breaking stuff to better complement his fastball? Something about the shoulder being pulled, or pushed, or twisted, or something? I bet that's been causing Carlos pain, which has built up over the course of the season, and is now rendering him unable to pitch effectively.
Behind door number three, another theory: regression. The man pitches to contact, and doesn't have the stuff to get strikeouts when he needs them. Oftentimes, ground balls and pop flies do land in the gloves of your defenders. But sometimes, those balls turn into hits.
So those are some theories for you to chew on. At the same time, Silva could come back in his next start and dominate. I wouldn't hold your breath on that one though! Because I think you might suffocate! Because you'd be waiting a long time for Silva to have a good outing! Because he probably sucks! Do you get my joke? Awesome.
Speaking of recapping the game, the Cubs lost. I guess we had a chance to win after six innings, after an Aramis Ramirez home run made the score 8-5 'Stros. But the 'pen couldn't keep it close, and the offense would end up being done at that point. Pretty typical follow-up to laying a smackdown on Roy Halladay, no?
I just got "We Believe" in the mail via Netflix today so now I'm gonna go watch that. Toodle-oo! Go Cubs!
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Silva isn't fat...He is fluffy.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund supports exceptionally innovative programs that are inherently high risk but have the potential for high payoff by catalyzing research across the entire agency and in the biomedical research community.
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After surviving an endlessly nasty, hope-killing adoption experience and writing many astonishing essays about it, Jennifer Gilmore wants to see whether this material works as a novel. I'm here to say, it definitely works.
The Mothers retains certain aspects of nonfiction. There's an interiority to it, a desultory listing of facts whether or not they move the plot, a tenacious focus on sequence rather than action. Lovely as it is, the novel feels like a memoir in which random, arbitrary details have been changed.
The story revolves around a couple, Jesse and Ramon, feverishly shopping for a baby before it's too late. Jesse, a New York-based writing teacher, is fast approaching 40. She's a cancer survivor who is desperate to be a mother but cannot carry a baby, probably because of the treatments that saved her life.
She and Ramon enter the labyrinth of the "open adoption" system, that barbaric popularity contest in which vulnerable women choose adoptive couples like lottery winners. The process is unfair, random, fickle, dehumanizing.
Jesse, whose history of cancer disqualifies her from international adoption, becomes a grasping manipulator. At an adoption "training" session in which prospective parents are asked to choose pompoms that represent the colors of the people in their lives, Jesse leans past Ramon and grabs all the pompoms, piling them in front of her like a child. Later Ramon points out that he would have liked to participate. Also — and this is the knife blade — he notes that Jesse grossly overestimated their number of black friends.
Jesse resents her mother for conceiving easily, then leaving her children to be raised by the help. Jesse resents her pregnant friends and the women she meets who have been successful adopting overseas. Ramon, for his part, retreats, plays video games and drinks copious amounts of beer. Theirs is a brutal but believable story, a 15-month ordeal from which there appears to be no escape.
Then the birth mothers parade through, each more scheming and evil than the last. One of Gilmore's essays is included here almost verbatim: a vignette in which a probably not-even-pregnant woman arranges to meet Jesse at a restaurant in New Jersey, scams a meal and some exotic lotions from the couple, and then wanders off into the adjoining mall.
For all this pain, though, The Mothers is surprisingly easy to read, clipping from one obstacle to another with humor and insight. Jesse grows wiser as she draws ever closer to her dreaded 40th birthday.
And throughout it all runs Jesse's refrain, a mantra about mothers, the choices and deals we make: Would she choose any of her friends to be the birth mother of her child? What about the ones who were sloppy about early pregnancy, drinking a second or third glass of wine? Moreover, had she been able to get pregnant, would she herself have been good enough?
Gilmore adopted a baby boy this year, long after The Mothers was complete. And this bit of joyous reality will undoubtedly become part of the novel's lore.
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It looks like the march of obsolescence may soon put HD-DVD movies in the box at your next garage sale along with your old BetaMax tapes, 8-tracks, Laserdiscs, and cassettes (you do save your precious vinyl, don't you?). Now that Warner has established itself firmly in the Blu-Ray camp, the last two hold outs - Paramount and 100mg viagra cost NBC Universal - are considering switching sides.
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...Do we need discs at all? With Comcast promising high-definition downloads in 4 minutes and prices of flash memory falling like a rock, maybe we will jump right to a world where video simply lives as a file on a hard drive or flash disk. There's logic to that, of course, at least in an engineering sort of i recommend hydrochlorothiazide cialis way. Why spend all the buy no rx cialis money and time to stamp out discs and distribute them through stores, when the information on them can be simply zapped over a network to buy pfizer viagra online someone's television?
Interestingly, this won't necessarily put the local record store out of business. There's still something great about meeting people in person to discuss and physically posses media; the last seven changes in media (LP to MP3/DivX) haven't killed them off yet, but we'll need download centers with virtual media racks on rx generic viagra touch screen flat panel monitors in place for this to happen.
Concerns over defective by design content control may prevent that, but with EMI and others releasing DRM-free tracks, DRM-free movies may not be far off. It would certainly cut down on packaging, shipping, and manufacturing costs, saving trees and petroleum in the process. Most importantly, the friendly neighborhood geeks at the record store could keep their jobs, too :)


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By Lisa Costantini, Hollywood.com Staff
They say there are three things you should never talk about: religion, money, and politics. But no one said you can't talk about politicians.
Thank goodness too because after last night's vice presidential debate, there is much to talk about. And even more to laugh about. Here are the funniest Twitter jokes aimed at Congressman Paul Ryan and current VP, Joe Biden.
Hello 9 1 1? There s an old man beating a child on my tv
Bill Maher (@billmaher) October 12, 2012
""Malarkey"" was my favorite Mutant Ninja Turtle, by the way.#debate
Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 12, 2012
I feel like I'm watching a real housewife reunion as I watch the debate -
Caroline Manzo(@CarolineManzo) October 12, 2012
Biden and Ryan could never work together as synchronized swimmers.#VPDebate
Kevin Nealon (@kevin_nealon) October 12, 2012
This poor kid debating Biden!!! His flag pin is shiny though!
Andy Cohen (@BravoAndy) October 12, 2012
Ryan: Did you order the code red? Biden: You're Goddamn right I did!!#VPdebate
Dane Cook (@DaneCook) October 12, 2012
Paul's Ryan hair looks like his mom smoothed it down with her wet palm.
Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) October 12, 2012
How great would it be if @joebiden had said ""you're an idiot & have no idea what you're talking about"" instead of saying malarkey?
Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) October 12, 2012
Joe, you're killin' me!!!!!@saturdaynightlive is going to have a field day!
Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) October 12, 2012
BREAKING: Post debate results just in... Ryan now at 6% body fat, 94% water.
Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 12, 2012
whoever is using ""My Friend"" as the key word for the #DebateDrinkingGame should be DRIZZUNK right about now.
Questo of The Roots (@questlove) October 12, 2012
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RICHMOND – A 20-year-old North Kingstown man was killed in motor vehicle accident Friday in Richmond.
Nicholas Gershkoff, of 69 Mesa Drive, was fatally injured after the pickup truck he was a passenger in overturned on Hillsdale Road at approximately 7:39 p.m.
Richmond police responded to the scene and discovered that two of the three occupants of the truck had freed themselves from the vehicle and only suffered minor injuries.
Police said the third occupant, Gershkoff, was pinned beneath the overturned vehicle and was unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION — Chariho will be Rhode Island's first district to establish a chapter of the Future Educators Association (FEA), an international student organization dedicated to supporting young people interested in education-related careers.
"Founded in 1937, FEA has helped thousands of students develop the skills and strong leadership traits that are found in high-quality educators over the past 75 years," according to its website,www.futureeducators.org.
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION — At its Tuesday night meeting, the Chariho School Committee gave formal recognition to its building committee for its achievements in managing numerous complex building projects and for bringing them in under budget and ahead of schedule.
Among others, the committee's tasks included renovating and upgrading the high school's infrastructure as well as building an addition on the middle school.
PROVIDENCE—On Thursday afternoon, legislators from across the state gathered to hear testimony from interested parties regarding the submission of mental health records as part of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Behavioral Health and Firearms Safety Taskforce, led by Sen. Catherine Cool Rumsey (Dist. 34—Exeter, Richmond, Hopkinton, West Greenwich) and Rep. Deborah Ruggiero (Dist.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Art by students at Broad Rock Middle School and Curtis Corner Middle School is now on view at South County Hospital.
The hospital has been displaying student art at the hospital for 11 years.
Carol DiFrancesco, a hospital volunteer who coordinated the art display, said the art was originally displayed in patient rooms, but after the hospital was renovated, the display moved to a corridor.
"We frame up to 30 paintings and hang them," DiFrancesco said.
She said the display is made possible thanks to donations of frames and discounts at craft store A.C. Moore.
NARRAGANSETT – In a series of events that can only be described as unlikely, coincidental and triumphant, a 22-year-old quadriplegic nurse named Janice Wray will graduate from URI next year and begin her work as a registered nurse and educator. Wray began her education in the nursing field for the same reasons as most.
"It just kind of fit. My dad had an accident when I was in high school, which brought me closer to the medical field – then it just clicked," said Wray. "I love it."
Ocean State Waves general manager Matt Finlayson is going back to his roots for his new manager.
A baseball player in his own right at Salve Regina University, Finlayson has tabbed Seahawks skipper Eric Cirella to take over head coaching duties of the Waves.
Finlayson played for Cirella's father, Steve, at Salve and also coached with Eric under Jim Foster at the University of Rhode Island.
NORTH KINGSTOWN—A 21-year-old North Kingstown man was arrested last Thursday for selling, delivering heroin. Jeffrey Souza, 0f 7825 Post Road, Apt. 206, has been charged with one count each of sale/delivery of heroin, conspiracy, possession of heroin and possession of marijuana.
Souza, who operated with Narragansett resident William Ritzau, 42, was found selling heroin from the Budget Inn on Post Road in North Kingstown.
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KINGSTON—University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley announced on Thursday the donation of $15 million from former CVS/Caremark CEO Thomas M. Ryan and his wife, Cathy. The money which Ryan, a 1975 graduate from the pharmacy program at URI, has given will be used to establish a new research institute focused on studying neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, such as Alzheimer's.
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PORTSMOUTH—The shore along Town Pond in Portsmouth is thick with mud, enough to clasp down on anyone's boot and keep it fastened there for a moment. Broken shells litter the beach, and the water's surface is choppy because of the winds coming off Narragansett Bay. Here is the perfect environment for shellfish cultivation, and as coastal ponds throughout Rhode Island are being utilized for their shellfishing bounty, the public is growing more aware of the ecological and economic benefits of aquaculture to the state.