Beauty in the Deep

"For thou hadst cast me into the deep,
in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about:
all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul:
the depth closed me round about,
the weeds were wrapped about my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains;
the earth with her bars was about me for ever:
yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God."

Jonah 2: 3-6

Galapagos from Darek Sepiolo on Vimeo.

Upcoming Movie Addresses Schizophrenia

I love good movies. Imagine how excited I was to read about one with great promise today at NAMI. See the article here.

The trailer is very moving, and brought me to tears. See it here.

There are good things on the move in this world.

Photo from IMDb.

Anti-Depressant, Video Form

(Thank you for sharing this, N.)

Things Change

Things Change
Originally uploaded by James Jordan

Things change . . . and nighttime has it's beauty, too.

Moon-set Sunrise

Moon-set Sunrise
Originally uploaded by BY-YOUR-⌘

The sun will rise.

Resurrection

Chopin Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4

And there is God.

Humor Helps

Here is a video of just some of my family who do a great job of keeping me smiling. The singer is sight-reading a new pillowcase he received as a gift in the mail.



Thank you, Emily.

A Rose, a Thorn

I ventured out last night for dinner and live music.

My son played his trombone with a jazz band, and sang scat solos with a choir. I was so glad I was well enough to be there. At the end of the evening I got to be part of the "congregation" while jazz artist Louise Rose sang and played and talked and-- well, ministered. I was genuinely blessed to spend an hour in her presence. Her performance had a healing power for me.




Today, however, the resultant clouds of depression are gathering. There is a price to be paid for pushing my limits.

And so it goes.





Credit goes to her website for the picture of Louise Rose and to this photographer for the thorn.

On Being

One of the great comments I gleaned from my time at Alanon was this one: "You are made to be a human being, not a human doing." Great truth for one who feels she is never doing enough. How I appreciated this post today at Mind, Soul, and Body. It reminded me again that what I am becoming is the true measure of my progress. I can day by day become more like my beloved Savior under any conditions, even when I am not doing what most everybody else is doing. Even if I am a little "tetched," as they say.

On that note, I also watched again the movie "Miss Potter" yesterday. I love that story. I love that she was, well, pixilated, yet so endearing. The movie is a love story, but the love story which most moved me was that of Beatrix Potter's love of the land. I long for the life that she lived in the end, among the glorious beauties of nature, not devoid of loved ones, but with much of solitude and time for her art. I hope that is what awaits me, if not here, then in the next world. That is my idea of heaven.

Thank you to this site for the image of my favorite scene from the movie.