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The Art of Life: June 2015

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Friday, June 26, 2015. Needing Help vs Wanting Help. My daughter has a friend, who for the sake of anonymity we'll call. um. Suzi. Sure, that works. My daughter, having had to live with me and my struggles the past couple of years, asked some questions. Maybe you should go see a psychiatrist? So she tried another route:. So she came to talk to me. B - We ...

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The Art of Life: July 2015

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Saturday, July 25, 2015. My Affair With Apostraphes and Commas. Why do I write? I write because I dream in vivid colors, swimming in the new, the odd, and the real. I write because I can feel and see things through my artist eyes that cannot be expressed in any other way than the power of feelings conveyed by words. As I type there is a freedom, an escape...

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The Art of Life: I am what I am

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. I am what I am. I *HAVE* BiPolar Type 2, Depression, and Anxiety. I *AM* an Artist. I am a Mother. I am a Friend, Lover, Sister, Aunt, Grandchild, Daughter. I am not my illness, nor does it define me. It is something I have to deal with constantly. It is something that I have not completely figured out how to control. I've fallen o...

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The Art of Life: Love Languages

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. I have a friend who is a therapist. He was talking to me vaguely about a married couple who did not speak the same love language and how he was assigning them homework to practice learning the other's language. There are two of the languages I don't speak at all: the gifts one. receiving? I love hanging out with friends once in ...

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The Art of Life: Where I'm At

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Regression is hard. I know it's part of life, but it's a sucky part. Let me start with the good things. Sunday evenings I go play games with another set of friends. We laugh, we're silly, and a good time is had by all. I have a lot of friends and family who are very supportive, whether I'm in a good place or a bad place. My motivat...

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The Art of Life: Summer

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. This summer, I am offering art classes as a fundraiser to help pay for our Girl Scout trip to the NASA Space Center and Galveston Island. Fees will help pay for materials, all extra will be put in our Girl Scout Fund. Ages 5-8: Wednesdays from 10-11 am. Ages 9-12: Wednesdays from 11am to 12 pm. Ages 13 : Wednesdays from 1-2pm. I taught summer art to the U...

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The Art of Life: March 2015

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Monday, March 30, 2015. On Depression and Mental Illness. I am copying and pasting this from my Facebook post. On Depression and Mental Illness:. Therapy rocks. A good therapist makes handling life, med changes, and down days so much easier. If it's covered by insurance or is available through other means, take it, use it, live it. Oils, exercise, diet ch...

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The Art of Life: I love books, I do, but really? REALLY???

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Monday, June 8, 2015. I love books, I do, but really? I have spent most of my life with my nose buried in books. For the most part, I love sci-fi/fantasy. I love to lose myself in stories and imagine I'm one of the starship smugglers or heroines on horseback saving the day with magic and thunder. During this phase, I have purchased quite a few e-books&#46...

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The Art of Life: April 2015

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Not long after or before my Walk of Doom (which is easier to say than attempted suicide) I posted about how frustrated I was that none of my talents or gifts work any more. Then slowly things began to change. About a week after my med change, I began to draw again. And then paint. And it came out beautifully. It's only been a mo...

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The Art of Life: My Recent Art Project

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The Art of Life. A little about me, my art, my kids, some blunt honesty about bi-polar depression, my goals, or whatever else I feel like typing about. Friday, June 19, 2015. My Recent Art Project. Laying down the gridwork and learning how to do celtic knots. My very first time doing celtic knots. I looked at a lot of tutorials. Threw in some steampunk gears for fun. Finalized the knotwork, added the raven, and decided on a lunar theme for the top. Onward to the next stage:. Finished. Knotwork painte...