Recovering from mental illness is no straight line. It’s a rollercoaster of good days and bad. This instability can be too much for most to bear, your mind will seek the negative side of everything, as though you’ve never felt well.

Trying to remind yourself that you have had good days, even if they were months ago, seems like an impossible task when that dark fog descends and you can’t see anything else.

I’ve had periods of really poor mental health, and periods of okay if not good mental health, but when I struggle, those good days fade away and my mind tells me they never happened, and never will. This is a dangerous place to be in your head, you lose the ability to believe that you’ll ever see the light again.

If I had to pick one skill that helped me to cope with my mental health, it…

On almost every social media platform I use, at some point an advertisment or a post from someone will come up that is encouraging people to have conversations about their mental health. This is an initative supported by many a company and celebrity, and one which I support whole-heartedly, however.

These posts have been around for a while, years in fact, and as someone who has numerous conversations with my friends, family and colleagues about mental health, it has made an impact. Many more people are aware of mental ill-health than ever before, and I believe there are also more conversations going on about mental health than ever before.

But is that enough?

For some, getting some anxieties and worries off of their chest to their nearest and dearest may be enough to keep their head above water, but what about everyone else? I’m talking about the ones who need…

The full scale replica of the Lady Washington launched on March 7. 1989 and was built in Aberdeen, WA.

The original Lady Washington was given a major refit after the Revolutionary War in 1787 to be prepared for a unprecedented trading voyage around Cape Horn.
And in 1788 she became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America.

She was a pioneer in the Pan-Pacific trade, was the first American ship to visit Honolulu and Japan.

The modern Lady Washington, constructed as a brig, was thoroughly researched by historians and then traditionally constructed by skilled shipwrights, then launched as part of the 1988 Washington State Centennial celebration. She is a US Coast Guard inspected and certified passenger sailing vessel.

She also appeared in several motion pictures and tv shows, including Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black…

What Did You Say?

National Geographic
Head trainer Teri Turner Bolton looks out at two young adult male dolphins, Hector and Han, whose beaks, or rostra, are poking above the water as they eagerly await a command. The bottlenose dolphins at the Roatán Institute for Marine Sciences (RIMS), a resort and research institution on an island off the coast of Honduras, are old pros at dolphin performance art. They’ve been trained to corkscrew through the air on command, skate backward across the surface of the water while standing upright on their tails, and wave their pectoral fins at the tourists who arrive several times a week on cruise ships.

Upon serious examination of life’s absurdity and the philosophy of absurdism, there is no more natural place to begin than with the quandaries of Camus. A survivor of the Nazi occupation of France, the Algerian born journalist became well-known for his ideas concerning the meaning of life, which is to say there is no meaning – and therein lies the absurdness of existence.

Upon serious examination of life’s absurdity and the philosophy of absurdism, there is no more natural place to begin than with the quandaries of Camus. A survivor of the Nazi occupation of France, the Algerian born journalist became well-known for his ideas concerning the meaning of life, which is to say there is no meaning – and therein lies the absurdness of existence.

THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

SOCRATES: Next, said I [= Socrates], compare our nature in respect of education and its lack to such an experience as this.

The International Day of Democracy is today, 15 September.  I am curating my Conventional Wisdom post.

May 13, 2018

The Internet bid RIP to Margot Kidder, the sixty-nine-year-old actress who was Lois Lane for the seventies’ and eighties’ Superman films.  For 1978’s film Superman, Kidder played Lois Lane near perfectly.

 

I have also watched a few random episodes of Krypton, the prequel TV series for the Superman universe.  The design is quite appealing and the ideas are complex but interesting.

15 September

While there are no more new Discover Challenges for WordPress, I wanted to update this post for clarity.

 

In March I borrowed a box of comic books belonging to a cousin and reflected a touch on those stories that I remembered.  It got me catching up on the Innerspace sci-fi news series on Space on cable TV.  Reflecting on their…

The International Day of Democracy is today, 15 September.  I am curating my Conventional Wisdom post.

May 13, 2018

The Internet bid RIP to Margot Kidder, the sixty-nine-year-old actress who was Lois Lane for the seventies’ and eighties’ Superman films.  For 1978’s film Superman, Kidder played Lois Lane near perfectly.

 

I have also watched a few random episodes of Krypton, the prequel TV series for the Superman universe.  The design is quite appealing and the ideas are complex but interesting.

15 September

While there are no more new Discover Challenges for WordPress, I wanted to update this post for clarity.

 

In March I borrowed a box of comic books belonging to a cousin and reflected a touch on those stories that I remembered.  It got me catching up on the Innerspace sci-fi news series on Space on cable TV.  Reflecting on their…

Struggling with the unseemly requires an extra serving of common sense.  Putting the Grammarly app up on your desktop browser with the intention of evaluating your own writing is an example.  It speaks to critical issues.

 

The folk at Grammarly would have you think you can proudly check your writing on your phone and get it revised at the last minute so it fits the mold, it becomes right where it was flawed, effectively it makes sense.  Do you typically compose your writing on your phone?  No, you do it elsewhere, and I won’t spend a moment telling you where.

 

This week’s photography challenge is a charming essay about structure, published the thirtieth of August.  The structure essay instructs to observe and then to photograph so that we are shown what was mostly invisible, yet necessary.  The thing to observe is made evident by the photo that…