This might ease your mind on your ever-changing world of change...
http://bombsite.com/issues/99/articles/2882
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
The Weekly Skirt Report - Stop Walking Away
My weekly skirt report is going to be a tad different maybe even un-decode-able. So if you have decoder ring you are ready to go.
Stop Walking Away:
After much thought, by talking to myself in the car trying to sort out my thoughts I've come to the realization that we all need to think better. You know, "work smarter not harder" but "think better not longer." Cause we all know when time outs last more than 5 or so minutes, we start thinking of other things.
So, after trying to make sense on a post the other day on Facebook which I withdrew my comments and such after thinking better about it, I began to weigh my thoughts as if I was talking to those people in a room, face to face not keyboard to keyboard.
I am not gonna say what it was about, but note that it riled people's inner Buford T. Pusser to go kick some ass. I get the emotional uprising but there's more at stake here than that. Our perception of people who flip out is basically because our views of mental illness is so warped, confused and unforgiving that we tend to over look the real problem. When people flip out as we say, we tend to think he's lost his marbles or crazy. When friends and family members are not their usual self, reacting to simple tasks and situations in a questionable manner, don't throw away the key, talk to them, work with them for the simple task of letting out their junk in a verbal way, (as my friend and me say, to make room for more junk) can save people - calm them down etc. The old "get it off your chest" is real folks.
If someone is killed because of someone's behavior then try to figure out, pick apart to see where the red flags or signs were, in the person's past and where you ignored it. What made them do it - why did they do it and most of how can we break the circle of it happening again with others around us. Try to see others in the circle of the situation and check with them, to see how they can walk away stronger and better, so when they feel themselves change, mentally to make themselves do something wrong that could be life changing. Something like murder will leave a huge mark on their family and friends. Learn from this. The effects will be deep and if you think executing the killer is gonna end it, you're wrong.
I understand this on two fronts - both are personal; one could've been helped and one was helped beyond the efforts to point of default. But one was too scared of living and dying at the same time and the other just didn't want to put forth the effort and so they both gave up. Why? Probably after years of trying to help them, family and friends, gave up or didn't come quick enough or didn't know what to do and it was too late. The effects on the family and friends, are still reeling today. It's been 13 years for one of the two after their death.
So what to do.
Well, for one, if one of these peoples are sent to the hospital or prison, they will get a room, 3 square meals and monitoring. Not much of monitoring but people will check in with them. The hospital might more compassionate and the prison will try but maybe not as caring because they are overwhelmed with a growing population. I know there's a problem where the hospital will just keep them in for 24 hours and let them go. I don't know if anyone saw The 60 Mins Show on that Senator and his son. Where the son attacked his father in Virginia then killed himself due to the mere fact the hospital didn't have a bed for him. So he could decompress and get help. There wasn't a communication line between state hospitals for mentality distraught people so they had to let him go after a few hours, and also, health insurance wouldn't pay for one more minute. Had there been a Google search for hospital beds the dad would've driven clear across the state to get his son help. I mean Best Buy can search all their stores to find you the TV you want but hospitals can't.
Red tape sucks.
Prisons should, take this more seriously, and I hope they are. So I am unsure of the numbers, but I know people who go to prisons and try to connect to these people because of their own pasts. They talk, they hug, the laugh, the play songs but most of all, they engage with these hard headed people. By the time you've gotten to the big house.... there's alot of punk rock angst in you. Is this in every prison in the country? Probably not. Too much money. People learn from others that have gone through the same hell as them. The professionals, should learn this too, it works for AA and NA the other groups that are support oriented... and I am sure there's ALOT of this going on. So I suggested to my "group" in the car, that maybe they should keep this guy around on the basis of learning from him because there's more of this kind of a guy around. It could be applied and who knows, maybe after a few years, HE might come around to become a "productive citizen"as the courts say. He probably wouldn't make outside the prison gates, BUT he would be feeling better knowing that he conquered his demons and help others along the way. All this kind of person wants is the ability to sleep at night, to have a clear mind and be appreciated.
Back to the TV Show, when all I hear and see are what's NOT being done then I tend to think well, there's a lot of dirty dishes that need to be cleaned.
Mental health runs deeper than a band-aid and neosporin. There's years of therapy, talk and medical treatment, group and one on one therapy. Sometimes you need to stop and start over - ALOT. The length of the time to heal is a lifetime. Just ask a solider with PTSD. People have choices yes, but when they show signs of not thinking or behaving irrationally, then grab that person before it's too late. Get their thoughts elsewhere, for even just a minute. I've heard that you can even change a person when you smile at people on the street for the better.
I am not a mental health professional, I am not a doctor, I am a painter and a publicist. I don't believe in the death penalty and I feel that most misread verse in the Bible is "eye for and eye and tooth for a tooth." I am not the end decision of where one should go when you die. Although I like Dante's "Inferno" and the idea there... BUT I am a firm believer that when a problem arises there is a solution. There's got to be. We are too smart for our own good but we don't even know it. There are going to be many more issues like, movie theater, school and mall shootings. The best outcome was when the school administrator in Georgia just told the man - "Hey I love you." And that's all we wanna hear.
So I hope my "opinion" clicks with someone, and maybe opens the door to a brighter, better thinking, lovable world of theirs. As I sometimes will post on Facebook, Twitter or Google + "I dare you to hug someone today."
JK
THIS IS MY OPINION SO DON"T HANG ME
Stop Walking Away:
After much thought, by talking to myself in the car trying to sort out my thoughts I've come to the realization that we all need to think better. You know, "work smarter not harder" but "think better not longer." Cause we all know when time outs last more than 5 or so minutes, we start thinking of other things.
So, after trying to make sense on a post the other day on Facebook which I withdrew my comments and such after thinking better about it, I began to weigh my thoughts as if I was talking to those people in a room, face to face not keyboard to keyboard.
I am not gonna say what it was about, but note that it riled people's inner Buford T. Pusser to go kick some ass. I get the emotional uprising but there's more at stake here than that. Our perception of people who flip out is basically because our views of mental illness is so warped, confused and unforgiving that we tend to over look the real problem. When people flip out as we say, we tend to think he's lost his marbles or crazy. When friends and family members are not their usual self, reacting to simple tasks and situations in a questionable manner, don't throw away the key, talk to them, work with them for the simple task of letting out their junk in a verbal way, (as my friend and me say, to make room for more junk) can save people - calm them down etc. The old "get it off your chest" is real folks.
If someone is killed because of someone's behavior then try to figure out, pick apart to see where the red flags or signs were, in the person's past and where you ignored it. What made them do it - why did they do it and most of how can we break the circle of it happening again with others around us. Try to see others in the circle of the situation and check with them, to see how they can walk away stronger and better, so when they feel themselves change, mentally to make themselves do something wrong that could be life changing. Something like murder will leave a huge mark on their family and friends. Learn from this. The effects will be deep and if you think executing the killer is gonna end it, you're wrong.
I understand this on two fronts - both are personal; one could've been helped and one was helped beyond the efforts to point of default. But one was too scared of living and dying at the same time and the other just didn't want to put forth the effort and so they both gave up. Why? Probably after years of trying to help them, family and friends, gave up or didn't come quick enough or didn't know what to do and it was too late. The effects on the family and friends, are still reeling today. It's been 13 years for one of the two after their death.
So what to do.
Well, for one, if one of these peoples are sent to the hospital or prison, they will get a room, 3 square meals and monitoring. Not much of monitoring but people will check in with them. The hospital might more compassionate and the prison will try but maybe not as caring because they are overwhelmed with a growing population. I know there's a problem where the hospital will just keep them in for 24 hours and let them go. I don't know if anyone saw The 60 Mins Show on that Senator and his son. Where the son attacked his father in Virginia then killed himself due to the mere fact the hospital didn't have a bed for him. So he could decompress and get help. There wasn't a communication line between state hospitals for mentality distraught people so they had to let him go after a few hours, and also, health insurance wouldn't pay for one more minute. Had there been a Google search for hospital beds the dad would've driven clear across the state to get his son help. I mean Best Buy can search all their stores to find you the TV you want but hospitals can't.
Red tape sucks.
Prisons should, take this more seriously, and I hope they are. So I am unsure of the numbers, but I know people who go to prisons and try to connect to these people because of their own pasts. They talk, they hug, the laugh, the play songs but most of all, they engage with these hard headed people. By the time you've gotten to the big house.... there's alot of punk rock angst in you. Is this in every prison in the country? Probably not. Too much money. People learn from others that have gone through the same hell as them. The professionals, should learn this too, it works for AA and NA the other groups that are support oriented... and I am sure there's ALOT of this going on. So I suggested to my "group" in the car, that maybe they should keep this guy around on the basis of learning from him because there's more of this kind of a guy around. It could be applied and who knows, maybe after a few years, HE might come around to become a "productive citizen"as the courts say. He probably wouldn't make outside the prison gates, BUT he would be feeling better knowing that he conquered his demons and help others along the way. All this kind of person wants is the ability to sleep at night, to have a clear mind and be appreciated.
Back to the TV Show, when all I hear and see are what's NOT being done then I tend to think well, there's a lot of dirty dishes that need to be cleaned.
Mental health runs deeper than a band-aid and neosporin. There's years of therapy, talk and medical treatment, group and one on one therapy. Sometimes you need to stop and start over - ALOT. The length of the time to heal is a lifetime. Just ask a solider with PTSD. People have choices yes, but when they show signs of not thinking or behaving irrationally, then grab that person before it's too late. Get their thoughts elsewhere, for even just a minute. I've heard that you can even change a person when you smile at people on the street for the better.
I am not a mental health professional, I am not a doctor, I am a painter and a publicist. I don't believe in the death penalty and I feel that most misread verse in the Bible is "eye for and eye and tooth for a tooth." I am not the end decision of where one should go when you die. Although I like Dante's "Inferno" and the idea there... BUT I am a firm believer that when a problem arises there is a solution. There's got to be. We are too smart for our own good but we don't even know it. There are going to be many more issues like, movie theater, school and mall shootings. The best outcome was when the school administrator in Georgia just told the man - "Hey I love you." And that's all we wanna hear.
So I hope my "opinion" clicks with someone, and maybe opens the door to a brighter, better thinking, lovable world of theirs. As I sometimes will post on Facebook, Twitter or Google + "I dare you to hug someone today."
JK
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The Weekly Skirt Report
Good AM!
Hopefully you are having a good January...
Things here have been different, dealing with a client shift that was hard to take to the weather to what to do with my art sitting around the house.
Art is collecting dust. Do I sell it cheaply? Keep it I can find the right buyer? Or give it away?
Do I join various clubs to get more involved? I dunno I am not much of a club person. Mickey Mouse Club perhaps.
So here's the deal: one of my volunteer jobs is to help out this Louisiana based, community run group called Voice of The Wetlands. It was founded by musician Tab Benoit to bring attention and focus to the eroding land. This has been around for about 10 years and now they are gearing up to yell a little louder. So please check out their site: http://www.voiceofthewetlands.org/
and maybe you will want to help out.
So in the meantime, I will go wash my hair...
Hopefully you are having a good January...
Things here have been different, dealing with a client shift that was hard to take to the weather to what to do with my art sitting around the house.
Art is collecting dust. Do I sell it cheaply? Keep it I can find the right buyer? Or give it away?
Do I join various clubs to get more involved? I dunno I am not much of a club person. Mickey Mouse Club perhaps.
So here's the deal: one of my volunteer jobs is to help out this Louisiana based, community run group called Voice of The Wetlands. It was founded by musician Tab Benoit to bring attention and focus to the eroding land. This has been around for about 10 years and now they are gearing up to yell a little louder. So please check out their site: http://www.voiceofthewetlands.org/
and maybe you will want to help out.
So in the meantime, I will go wash my hair...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
The Weekly Skirt Report!
First things first... it's cold. It makes me sleep a lot.
My pals Royal Southern Brotherhood will be on the road come end of January thru March I hope you all can get out and see them!
My pals Royal Southern Brotherhood will be on the road come end of January thru March I hope you all can get out and see them!
Then new consignment shop TO ME that is: is Alexis Suitcase located on Peachtree Rd. Love my new Freshpeople pants for 1/8 of the price. They have three locations: Sandy Springs and Johns Creek along with Buckhead. Way hot shoes and clothes and very upscale...
new old album: is Mike Farris' Live at the Cumberland - it's live with the Cumberland Saints. Gospel at its best.
Thought of the day goes along with Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" song...
Have a good one and keep warm!
Friday, December 6, 2013
The Weekly Skirt Report!
This week has been a hard one both mentally and emotionally. But we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel VERY soon.
So this week I am posting an article to read about knowing when to stop and start paintings. Or anything artistic and have it be presentable or ready to see by the public and not be hurried. And somehow this article can be related to life in general.
Patience is a learned thing not a virtue and it's got to be practiced all the time... So take a minute to read over this and maybe learn a few things from it for your next studio time.
http://burnaway.org/patience-painting/
Then one of my FAVES right now - Devon Allman is hitting the road for about 2 weeks so if you see a date near you - catch him live - very cool guy! Talented beyond measure!
So til next time! Hope you all are behaving for Christmas is around the corner!
SS
So this week I am posting an article to read about knowing when to stop and start paintings. Or anything artistic and have it be presentable or ready to see by the public and not be hurried. And somehow this article can be related to life in general.
Patience is a learned thing not a virtue and it's got to be practiced all the time... So take a minute to read over this and maybe learn a few things from it for your next studio time.
http://burnaway.org/patience-painting/
Then one of my FAVES right now - Devon Allman is hitting the road for about 2 weeks so if you see a date near you - catch him live - very cool guy! Talented beyond measure!
So til next time! Hope you all are behaving for Christmas is around the corner!
SS
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The Weekly Skirt Report - comes back!
The Weekly Skirt Report 11/20/2013
All I know is I have another ghost mouth to feed.
And all the voice said was, "You work too hard..."
Song of the Day: Aberdeen by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
I will write more I promise...
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