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My determined Jack was convinced something was up in those roots! I had to wash so much sand out of his eyelids afterwards it wasn't even funny.
This is Bob's mother and siblings posing for a photograph in their war time garden. I'm not sure who took this photograph but it was used for government publicity during the war and also appeared on a modern book all about wartime cooking. I shall endeavour to find our copy of the book to find out who wrote it, I have a feeling it was something to do with Margaret Patterson. It is a wonderfully iconic photoghraph.
Altered construction work sign. The sign is all bent out of shape, so it was difficult to get a clean shot.........hehehehe!
This hoarding book is geared towards the hapless family of the hoarder. It focuses on a harm reduction strategy aimed not at clearing out the relatives house, but at reducing the clutter that would most put them at risk i.e. papers too near the burners of the stove, triping hazards and dust and mold.
Quite a lot of the book is devoted to addressing the perceived pscychological injury of the relative, usually an adult child with a hoarding parent who grew up believing that the hoarded accumulation was more important than the child.
These authors appears to have much more experience with treating hoarders than the researchers who put hoarders on the map (and in the DSM). Instead of broadly defining hoarding as the collecting of items with little or no value, these authors focus on the compulsive part i.e. the compulsive aquiring of items and the difficulty in discarding items.
The authors also do not push cognitive therapy as the be and end all in treatment. They know that few hoarders are willing to undergo this treatment, so only suggest it for those those who are. Instead they teach non-judgemental interviewing to the reader with the goal of pursuading the hoarding loved one to allow a team to assist in harm reduction.
Lots of exchanges of dialog are given to demonstrate how these conversations might go.
The authors also outline how to create a contract between the hoarder and the team for the harm reduction project.
Given a willing and evolved family these techniques are a sound plan for achieving the stated goals of harm reduction. I did meet a very mature daughter who brough this book to my attention. She understood the family dynamics involved in her situation and was able to impart much valuable psychological information to me. Too bad for the family that she lives 3,000 miles away, which is where I come in. The parents are also much more inclined to listen to an "expert" than to their daughter, especially the dad who is prone to rage if he does not feel understood.
Because the psychological underpinnings are manifested in such illogical accumulation of seemingly low value stuff, it is easy to think of hoarders as being mentally impaired. When they finally do decide to clear things out it is quite a step up, so I make sure not to say anything that might comment on the illogic of the past collection. They can see it for themselves because once they are willing to address it it becomes obvious. The key is to keep them at it.
This book required for certificate in Hoarding given by the NSGCD.
8th July 2011.
Halton.
Fuji GF670 - Ilford FP4 Plus.
Developed in Rodinal 1;100 Stand Development for about 1hr.
Scanned with a Canoscan 8800FF.
Getting started on digging a hole. It's hard to describe how awesome and powerful these things are, and these were only relatively small excavators.
At Dig This in Las Vegas, NV.
From Left to Right: Brad Unger, Claire Brown, Grace Talmadge (me). Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska. We were digging gravel for to level out a nearby trail. It's hard to tell, but those hole we're in were about three feet deep, and that's only after digging for five hours!
"Well Digging" by Lumen Martin Winter on the second floor of the Kansas State Capitol. A well was a necessity for Kansas pioneers, particularly those on the high plains. The woman with a hoe offers a prayer for rain. The men dig deeper under a blazing sun as the diviner looks eagerly on.
One of 8 murals that are on the second floor of the capitol. Commissioned in 1976 and completed in 1978. Originally John Steuart Curry was going to do murals for the second floor rotunda but due to a dispute with legislature Curry left. The legislature then directed a new artist to "refer to" Curry's sketches for ideas on the new murals.
The Kansas State Capitol in Topeka Kansas. Built from 1866-1903 at a cost of $3,200,588.92. The capitol is 399 feet north and south and 386 feet east and west and is 304 feet high. It was completely restored from 1999-2014.
NRIS #71000330. Added in 1971.
To see the National Register Nomination Form:
www.kshs.org/resource/national_register/nominationsNRDB/S...