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May 24, 2011.
Having heavy conversations about the furthest constellations of our souls
Remember the time you first wondered about the true meaning of life?
That moment, when you felt a little more grown up than you usually do; that moment, when you first began to believe in intellectual conversations; that moment, when you realized the world was much more complicated than you had ever known.
That was the exact time, when you asked yourself the reason for your existence. The purpose to why you were here. Why you were even created, and why you happen to be standing upon this earth. Why you are the way you are. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you also wondered why you weren't like the person you aspired to be. A nagging vein of bitterness, a slight tinge of jealousy, that cold flash of envy.
Because you had an epiphany. It dawned on you that there were people who had it much better than you do.. but there was no explanation why.
Watching the seasons fall as leaves turn red again, then brown, then gently fall off; and return in spring; watching the cars pass by on the wet roads with rain lashing against the windows; watching the people walking by, each one more indifferent to you than the last. And you still haven't found the answer to why you are here, but time is gliding by with each breath that you take.
Perhaps there isn't a clear indication for your existence. Perhaps, you don't think you belong. Perhaps, just perhaps, you believe that no one cares. What you don't think of, is the impact you've already created. All you can think of is what you haven't done.
That girl with the shy smile and the hesitant expression, the one you always smile at when you pass her on the way to class. That stranger on the street with the jaded look, who somehow manages to show the faintest hint of a smile, when he sees you holding up a camera and trying to take a picture of what seems ordinary to everyone else, but is magical to you. The salesgirl with the tired eyes and pale sighs, who lights up when you say the simplest 'Thank you' while the other customers treat her with careless orders and annoyed beckons.
You don't have to look for the meaning of your life.
All you have to do is look for the meaning that you're creating.
Light leak credits go to the amazing Colton
Feeling that my world is totally crashed and destroyed with no hope and no-one to help with mess in my head... just a voiceless scream to nowhere...
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HAPPIEST Blythe MAIL DAY ... EVER !!!
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BARF BAGS available upon request ;) ;)
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"Look at this STUFF ...
Isn't it neat ...
Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the girl ...
The girl who has EVERYTHING????"
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Frank Sinatra
CD :
Frank Sinatra
No One Cares
Capitol Records
1959
Orchestra . Gordon Jenkins
Postcard :
Frank Sinatra
In Studio
1959
Use Hearing Protection
GMA
It Doesn't Help And No One Cares. Laguna Beach, California. November 25, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A scene at a Southern California art fair
This is, obviously, not "the usual" around here, but it seemed worth sharing. We were visiting a sort of art fair during a Thanksgiving visit to Southern California. At first I just looked at the arts and crafts, but having a camera in my hand I, of course, started to look at other things and to look at the event in different ways than most people who attend holiday fairs.
I could probably write an essay about this little photograph, but I'll keep it short. At this mostly happy event, there was, once I looked more closely, a surprising undercurrent of lonely looking people. The man sitting on the bench in the spot of sunlight, hands in front between his legs and head falling to the side, was certainly not the only one. However, the juxtaposition of this person with another man wearing a shirt with the cynical slogan, ostensibly during a "holiday" event, was jarring.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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This is my first picture of my new project “Goodbye Lullabies”. My most favorite song is Disenchanted of MCR, so I decided to take the photos about its meaning first. I keep listening to it over and over again to find what its true meaning is. “It’s just a sad song, with nothing to say, about a life long, wait a hospital stay. But if you think that I’m wrong, this never meant nothing to you!” At the end, I couldn’t find anything, which is really sad, so I just take photos about “disenchanted”: School, tests, and quizzes are really bored with me right now. I don’t want to do anything at all.
Btw, this is my first time I used phtoshop, so I know It's not good....:( I try more next time!
“I love these mornings”
Texts-Design-Photos: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Terrell Neuage 2019
#LoveTheseMornings #RunNaked #ThoughtsInPatterns #MyPast #MyMemories #Neuage #NoOneSeesMe #PhnomPenh #NoOneCares #MyMemories
OK. The April Fool's Joke is over and now I know that except for Megan, Colin, David, Isa, Rachel and Lewey.... NO ONE cared that I was going away. That hurts and today's 365 (with MANY more to come.....:-)) expresses that dispair. Where were all the FlickrFriends when I needed them? Gone, gone to FlickrGraveYards, everyone. When will I ev.....er learn.....when will I ever........learn......(singing johnny rivers' version but I also love the PP&M version of course.
I'm 55% done with 365 I could type 55% all on one key.
I get no rest when I'm feeling weary
I got to pack my bags and go
I got to be somewhere tomorrow
To smile and do my show
I travel around from town to lonely town
I guess I'll always be just a rolling stone
If I find fortune and fame and lots of people know my name
That won't mean a thing if I'm all alone
Some people call me a teenage/oldage idol
Some people say they envy me
I guess they got no way of knowing
How lonesome I can be
How lonesome I can be
Lyrics and music Jack Lewis
Artist: Eric Nelson
This sheet of A4 with the stencil writing was stuck on the landing wall at the top of the first set of stairs in my house. I decided to add to the in house artwork with a couple of information cards that I stuck onto it. My original plan was to put a BU counselling leaflet on it, that have something like.. "Don't get down, get it sorted." on the front.
I kind of didn't take any photos for about three weeks. Honestly, I don't really know why. I guess I got busy with school and work and had absolutely no inspiration. Now I'm playing catch up by uploading some old photos and hopefully I will get off my lazy butt and shoot something this week.
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My social harm was homelessness. There are a lot of homeless people on the street and in the subway. The people shown here are unable to bath regularly so they smell. They are usually avoided unless someone is giving them money. The social structure that deals with this is the societal but also to a smaller degree the personal. This is my subway stop. In the past there may have been a homeless man sleeping there for a night and then leaving. On this day there were three. One of those men has been on the same bench for over a month. He is old, with white hair and a long beard. The law does not really supports this social harm but it does not help the people either. Sleeping on a bench outside might get them arrested, which for them would mean a place to sleep, food, and access to hygiene. But it is ridiculous that they have to be locked up to receive basic necessities. If they went to a shelter and there wasn't enough room, they would be turned away which shows a flaw in our society.
- Rita S.
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
CHICAGO - Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.
Jackson's roommate - a mentally ill man nearly 30 years younger - was arrested and charged with the killing. Police found him sitting next to the nurse's station, blood on his hands, clothes and shoes. Inside their room, the ceiling was spattered with blood.
"Why didn't they do what they needed to do to protect my dad?" wondered Jackson's stepson, Russell Smith.
Over the past several years, nursing homes have become dumping grounds for young and middle-age people with mental illness, according to Associated Press interviews and an analysis of data from all 50 states. And that has proved a prescription for violence, as Jackson's case and others across the country illustrate.
Younger, stronger residents with schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder are living beside frail senior citizens, and sometimes taking their rage out on them.
"Sadly, we're seeing the tragic results of the failure of federal and state governments to provide appropriate treatment and housing for those with mental illnesses and to provide a safe environment for the frail elderly," said Janet Wells, director of public policy for the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform.
Numbers obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and prepared exclusively for the AP by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show nearly 125,000 young and middle-aged adults with serious mental illness lived in U.S. nursing homes last year.
That was a 41 percent increase from 2002, when nursing homes housed nearly 89,000 mentally ill people ages 22 to 64. Most states saw increases, with Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Alabama and Texas showing the steepest climbs.
Younger mentally ill people now make up more than 9 percent of the nation's nearly 1.4 million nursing home residents, up from 6 percent in 2002.
Several forces are behind the trend, among them: the closing of state mental institutions and a shortage of hospital psychiatric beds. Also, nursing homes have beds to fill because today's elderly are healthier than the generation before them and are more independent and more likely to stay in their homes.
No government agency keeps count of killings or serious assaults committed by the mentally ill against the elderly in nursing homes. But a number of tragic cases have occurred:
- In 2003, a 23-year-old woman in Connecticut was charged with starting a fire that killed 16 fellow patients at her Hartford nursing home. A court guardian said Leslie Andino suffered from multiple sclerosis, dementia and depression. She was found incompetent to stand trial and committed to a mental institution.
- In 2006, 77-year-old Norbert Konwin died at a South Toledo, Ohio, nursing home 10 days after authorities said his 62-year-old roommate beat him with a bathroom towel bar. Sharon John Hawkins was found incompetent to stand trial.
- In January, a 21-year-old man diagnosed with bipolar disorder with aggression was charged with raping a 69-year-old fellow patient at their nursing home in Elgin, near Chicago. A state review found that Christopher Shelton was admitted to the nursing home despite a history of violence and was left unsupervised even after he told staff he was sexually frustrated.
Jackson's roommate was 50 and had a history of aggression and "altered mental status," according to the state nursing home inspector's report. Solomon Owasanoye wandered the streets before he came to All Faith Pavilion, a Chicago nursing home, and he yelled, screamed and kicked doors after he got there.
On May 30, 2008, he allegedly picked up a clock radio, apparently while Jackson slept, and beat him into a coma. Exactly what set him off is unclear. Jackson died of his injuries less than a month later. Owasanoye pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, and after a psychiatric review was ruled unfit to stand trial. He now lives in a state mental hospital.
All Faith Pavilion co-owner Brian Levinson said his staff is trained to deal with aggressive behavior, and he disputed state findings that Owasanoye had a history of aggression. The for-profit nursing home was fined $32,500 for failing to prevent the assault.
Under federal law, nursing homes are barred from admitting a mentally ill patient unless the state has determined that the person needs the high level of care a nursing home can provide. States are responsible for doing the screening. Also, federal law guarantees nursing home residents the right to be free from physical abuse.
Families have sued in hopes of forcing states to change their practices and pressuring nursing homes to prevent assaults. Advocates say many mentally ill people in nursing homes could live in apartments if they got help taking their medication and managing their lives.
The problem has its roots in the 1960s, when deplorable conditions, improved drug treatments and civil rights lawsuits led officials to close many state mental hospitals. As a result, some states have come to rely largely on nursing homes to care for mentally ill people of all ages.
Also, mixing the mentally ill with the elderly makes economic sense for states. As long as a nursing home's mentally ill population stays under 50 percent, the federal government will help pay for the residents' care under Medicaid. Otherwise, the home is classified a mental institution, and the government won't pay.
In Missouri, more than 4,400 younger mentally ill people are living in nursing homes, in part because of a state program that helps the elderly stay in their own homes longer.
Nursing homes "are looking at 60 to 70 percent occupancy, and the statistics tell us they've got to be in the 90s to operate successfully," said Carol Scott, the state long-term care ombudsman for 20 years. "They're going to take anybody they can."
Gaps in staff training leave the homes inept at handling the delusions and aggression of the mentally ill, said Becky Kurtz, the state long-term care ombudsman in Georgia, where nearly 3,300 younger mentally ill people live in nursing homes.
"Often they'll say, 'I hate it there. I'm angry. I don't want to be there.' Sometimes the behavioral issues are the result of being ticked off you're in a nursing home," Kurtz said.
Pat Willis of the Center for Prevention of Abuse said she has seen elderly residents terrified by younger, mentally ill residents who scream and yell, day and night. "The senior residents are afraid," Willis said. "They would prefer to sit in their rooms now and keep the doors shut."
Nursing home operators say protections against frivolous transfer or discharge keep the homes from throwing out some mentally ill residents.
"Many times, the nursing home's only option becomes dialing 911," said Lauren Shaham, a spokeswoman for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
In support of TWLOHA. We lost someone very close to suicide recently, this is something that means a lot to us. I meant to get more people, like me, my daughter, my mom, pretty much anyone who's been touched our found peace from TWLOHA, but there just wasn't enough time in the day.
Gone to the beach for two days a few days ago. I saw bottles and garbage everywhere, I walked and picked up glass bottles/light bulbs/light tubes here and there, put them all into a pile, and these are just tiny bits.
I guess people here are very used to have garbage on the beach..photo on the left were shot on the first day, I left that glass pile on the beach, and the next day (photo on the right) the pile was still there. I did nothing but added more bottles into the pile.
It's a public beach, meaning it's public and no one can make money out of it, so no one bothers to clean it.
Taiwan, 2013
SOOC
View on black, please! :)
I don't know... I like how this turned out.
Frost on my window, then in turn scratched by my kitty.... don't ask why. :P
Sooo yeah, technically taken yesterday, but I haven't been home all day. Same goes for tomorrow....going to Chicago to shop for winter formal dress :D
#noonecares ...hehe.
Tellin it like it is.
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I can't watch LOST because ABC lost its advertisements for the episode. Oh, sweet irony.
This error messsage is not helpful to me in any way.
I got a phone call from helveticaneue on Saturday informing me that Remeneter House was gone. At first I thought she meant all the stuff had been cleared out, but she meant gone. The house, the kennel, the stable and all the stuff. All that remains is rubble, and this bird house. I had to go see it for myself, and was even more overwhelmingly saddened than I had been by the phone call. I did not know these people, but still I feel a huge sense of loss.
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