(click to enlarge and read)A study just released by the CDC reports that nearly one in 10 Americans suffers from at least two of the symptoms of depression.
How depressing is that?!
You can see state-by-state ratings here. How do you explain the grouping in the South?
Note: the states in white didn't participate in the survey. There's no way the people who live in NJ can't be depressed. They're best known for a guy named The Situation.
Maybe God doesn't mean for me to be good at golf. At what point do I surrender to my reality?
Pam likes the clock a lot, too.
Tomorrow is supposed to be our last triple-digit day (forecast high of 104 degrees). It's been brutal lately, not because those highs are unusual, but because they're so unusual for this time of year. By early October we should be in the low-90's, but this heat has gone on for what feels like forever.
In Michigan you accept that for the winter months you'll be spending all your time indoors. The same is true here for the summer. But this is like an endless blizzard in April. And the AC bill is a killer. It's still running 24/7.
In one of those confluences of circumstances that makes you wonder if there's something going on behind the curtain I've recently encountered several interesting things in the world of art. First we surfed AllPosters.com for stuff to put in the living room. That led to learning about Giclee and a couple of artists. Last Sunday we went to lunch with Karen, who is new to Pathway. She paints and teaches art at one of the local high schools (and she's from Grand Rapids where she directed the educational programs at the G.R. Art Museum). Today I played golf with a guy who retired from being an artist. Yeah, he made enough money as an artist that he could retire. Who'd have thought? He had his own gallery in Oregon and was famous enough that some of his stuff toured the country in a traveling exhibition sponsored by an art guild.
I look at Wikipedia's home page most evenings because they have a couple of interesting sections. I like "On this day..." and "Did you know...." The picture at the bottom is often interesting, too. A couple of days ago one of the "Did you know..." items was about the two portraits of Mary Adeline Williams done by Thomas Eakins. I followed that link to read what turns out to be an interesting story about two very different portraits of the same woman painted a year apart. I followed that link to read about Eakins (weird guy). Then I went to the article on John Singer Sargent just because I like his portraits. His portrait of Lady Agnew is my favorite.
If I had a gazillion dollars I'd build a big garage and fill it with classic cars. Then I'd cover the walls of my house with paintings. Portraits and landscapes, especially from that period of American art right around the turn of the 20th century.
Norman Rockwell: art or kitsch?
How depressing is that?!
You can see state-by-state ratings here. How do you explain the grouping in the South?
Note: the states in white didn't participate in the survey. There's no way the people who live in NJ can't be depressed. They're best known for a guy named The Situation.
Maybe God doesn't mean for me to be good at golf. At what point do I surrender to my reality?
Pam likes the clock a lot, too.
Tomorrow is supposed to be our last triple-digit day (forecast high of 104 degrees). It's been brutal lately, not because those highs are unusual, but because they're so unusual for this time of year. By early October we should be in the low-90's, but this heat has gone on for what feels like forever.
In Michigan you accept that for the winter months you'll be spending all your time indoors. The same is true here for the summer. But this is like an endless blizzard in April. And the AC bill is a killer. It's still running 24/7.
In one of those confluences of circumstances that makes you wonder if there's something going on behind the curtain I've recently encountered several interesting things in the world of art. First we surfed AllPosters.com for stuff to put in the living room. That led to learning about Giclee and a couple of artists. Last Sunday we went to lunch with Karen, who is new to Pathway. She paints and teaches art at one of the local high schools (and she's from Grand Rapids where she directed the educational programs at the G.R. Art Museum). Today I played golf with a guy who retired from being an artist. Yeah, he made enough money as an artist that he could retire. Who'd have thought? He had his own gallery in Oregon and was famous enough that some of his stuff toured the country in a traveling exhibition sponsored by an art guild.
I look at Wikipedia's home page most evenings because they have a couple of interesting sections. I like "On this day..." and "Did you know...." The picture at the bottom is often interesting, too. A couple of days ago one of the "Did you know..." items was about the two portraits of Mary Adeline Williams done by Thomas Eakins. I followed that link to read what turns out to be an interesting story about two very different portraits of the same woman painted a year apart. I followed that link to read about Eakins (weird guy). Then I went to the article on John Singer Sargent just because I like his portraits. His portrait of Lady Agnew is my favorite.
If I had a gazillion dollars I'd build a big garage and fill it with classic cars. Then I'd cover the walls of my house with paintings. Portraits and landscapes, especially from that period of American art right around the turn of the 20th century.
Norman Rockwell: art or kitsch?
2 comments:
I'm from NJ. Never heard of The Situation. I looked him up. Worked like a charm... depression is gone! =)
I don't know if Norman Rockwell is art or kitsch. I just know I like him. He captures whimsy and depth, simultaneously.
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