ISSUE 9 | VOL 1 | OCTOBER 2018
A MAGAZINE FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
JAAMZIN CREATIVE PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPHY Photographers and cinematographers
Visual artists, painters
GRAPHIC ART
MUSIC
Graphic artists, illustrators, cartoonists
Musicians, singers and songwriters
INTERVIEWS I nt er vi ews wi t h ar t i st s and cr eat i ve peopl e
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Photography Photographers,, cinematographers
12 Painting and graphic arts Painters, visual artists, cartoonists
25 Illustrators Illustrations.. illustrators
32 Music, Film Singers, songwriters, musicians, filmmakers
34 Events, Interviews Interviews with artists and creative people
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PHOTOGRAPHER
FRANCIS WILLMANN My name is Francis Willmann and I am a 27 year old Art Director from Hamburg, Germany with a passion for photography. I am always hungry for the next adventure and my camera is most vital thing in my luggage. My boyfriend and muse, who is in all three shots, is always willing to help me realize my vision.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographer Charis Fodelianakis I’m Charis Fodelianakis, I’m 30 years old and I was born and raised in Rethymno, a small but still quaint city on the greek island of Crete. When I’m looking at someone’s eyes, i don’t see a beautiful or an ugly face. I can see its possibilities to produce an inspiring, memorable image that will convey real meaning and emotion. Thats why Portraits fascinates me that much! Because human beings are vulnerable creatures. It requires a lot of interaction, on my part as a photographer, with an unknown subject that I can’t control but can only try to understand its inner being on that particular day, that particular moment and work with it while trying to create something beautiful with my camera.If photography is the art of telling a story, then i’m a storyteller.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
JULIANA FRUG
My name is Juliana Frug and i`m a freelancer food photographer and visual artist based in São Paulo. In my original work I like to photograph ordinary foods in an unusual perspective with a lot of colors and a hard flash. I like to call attention of people to think about the subject portrayed.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Miojo`s anonymous association - Miojo's anonymous association is a joke with myself. It is a self portrait that shows my addiction to miojo and all my shame for loving a food so poorly nutritional.
Beat the beet - Beat the beet was a commercial job for an organic food company. In it I present several varieties of beet inviting the public to know them.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Jasa Melendez I am from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex. I've been taking pictures for more than three years. Photography for me is a way of venting my feelings in something visual.
Never had any formal training. People are my favorite genre. Portraits especially. Black and white are my favorite colors.
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PHOTOGRAPHER
CARLA DE SOUSA
Carla de Sousa is a photographer based in Leiria, Portugal. Since 2012, photography has become her main form of self-expression. Her eclectic body of work, focuses on detail, light and shadow and her clean simple images try to decode a more complex meaning for things, using metaphors as visual language. Her pathway on photography uses self-representation as a significant tool to understand her work: selfportraying allows her to explore her inner self in poetic performances.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Penny Felts I'm a Nashville based photographer. I am a lover of blur. I dream of photographs. I was raised by a mother who always had a camera around her neck, and a navy dad who brought her a new camera from every port. I am always trying new techniques, and will never stop. I started a group called The 12:12 Project, with members from all corners of the world.Â
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Lo Kee French photographer, I was born in 1989 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I now live and work in Paris. Self-thaught, it is in 2015 that I decided to devote myself fully to the practice of photography. In 2018, I joined the board of directors of the French National Society of Fine Arts.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
CAIQUE SILVA
My name is Caique Silva, I live in Madre de Deus, Bahia, Brazil, I'm 20 years old, I'm a portrait photographer and I'm a dream millionaire ... I usually say to everyone who asks, what makes a photo really good: No feeling, no photo! <3
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Ilya Petrov
I am Ilya Petrov from Moscow, Russia, and I love film photography. I started nearly 10 years ago with an old Soviet "Zenith E" camera. The lens from that camera, 58mm f/2.0 Helios, is still in use with my Pentax K1000 from time to time, although I prefer native K-mount lenses. JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 11
PAINTING
MTRI
Mtri is an erstwhile filmmaker who is a failure of colossal dimensions. Mumbai based, he indulges in poetic crap, writing gibberish and doodles masquerading as art. Unafraid of colors, he joyfully uses his art as a therapy for his manic passions. JAAMZIN CREATIVE | 12
PAINTING
Francesco Zampieri Francesco Zampieri was born in Verona, Italy, where it lives and works. He started drawing since childhood, and in 2018, he accomplished a Master Degree in fine art academy of Venice with a specialization in paintings. His works, predominantly made on paper and graphite, or oil on wood, are a costant search of creating a symbolic visionary which is often half revealed trough close up images, leaving the hint of a bigger revelation without spoiling it.
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PAINTING
PAINTER
BOBBI KOPLOW I am self taught and started painting in the 1980 s when my youngest left for college.This was the perfect therapy. It not only filled the empty nest ,but helped me discover myself.What started off as a hobby is now a major part of my life. My art has taught me who I am and now I work toward where I am going. I approach my work as a journey.both into the subconscious of the mind and the soul of the painting. My art has taught me who I am and now I work toward where I am going. Finding my way into the canvas is only half the journey; finding my way out completes the intimacy I hope to share with the viewer.
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PAINTING
MATTHEW CASTELLANO
Matthew Castellano is a multimedia artist born in South Florida in 1985 and lived there until 2010 where he fell in love with skateboarding and creating art. He currently lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Statement: Personifying my feelings about humanity while exploring the idea of Man versus Civilization in existence and conflict, and in struggles and triumphs; both realistically and abstractly. Using a minimalistic style as a means to take a chaotic world and open it up with simplicity by applying a variety of media to convey all aspects of the human experience.
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PAINTING
Pegatina Criolla Fictional character, model ninety, experimental "melomano " of the beat drawn, addicted to the cereal, in himself same and obstinate to draw, soccer player of half time, sentimental advisor and in spite of all the setbacks and the decisions taken during these eight years dedicated to the drawing, the production of fanzines, by painting several murals in a new way, by doing an empirical beat and by telling short stories in an unprofessional way.
Today I can make a deeper analysis of Who is really a Creole sticker? "Cartoonist of vocation, empirical writer without full-time title, extensor and vinyl muralist and LOWBROW artist in the process of coming out of the closet, without a resume as an artist, graduated from the best school of anonymity and individualistic selfmanagement." This character comes from the hills of the divine child and now lives in the elipse fields of Zipaquira Colombia.
I went from being a Technician in Advertising Design, to working for three years in an audiovisual production company, then I went to the difficult world of independence called "freenlace" where his success was to be in the head for the wrong thing he received, until he was called to part of a digital magazine recognized in the medium to develop digital content for several months learned from the business, until he had the opportunity to be part of one of the best channels that Colombian television has and after several years working and a residency in Nobody's city now sticker is thrown into the ring as an artist, with two exhibitions in your life, several photocopied publications and an array of daily drawings share with you this drawn universe.
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DIGITAL ARTIST
VICTORIA OBSCURE I am Victoria Obscure a digital artist  from Skopje,Macedonia.I create dark and surreal artwork with dream-like quality,a mix of all things lovely and disturbing.
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DIGITAL ARTIST
EVAN LAWRENCE Evan Lawrence is best known for his profound contemporary surrealist digital images. He is an artist, designer, and photographer based in Indonesia. Self-taught, Evan began to explore and turned his intricate feeling into surreal vision mixed along with his ambiguous perspective on the reality.
"Lollipop" tells about the old age is totally a good and pleasant thing. Also, carry the spirit of the child into old age will make us never losing the enthusiasm in life.
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"Relationship" is my representation that love is really complicated things. It can be confusing, it can be terrifying, and it can be hurting.
"Omen" is about my restlessness on social life nowadays; people becoming more insensitive with each other. We've ceased to care.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
Marko Marinkovic Marko Marinkovic, professional graphic designer, live and work in Belgrade, Serbia, graduated on Faculty of Applied Arts.
I'm experimenting with digital graphics, collage and drawings, exploring and moving boundaries of art and design. I believe my artworks are hyper realistic rather than abstract. They capture moments were our nature, dreams, expectations, business, awareness, conscious and subconscious collide. We see numbers showing exact values, but mean nothing. We see life, but it is still. We see shapes just as they are moving. We've been given answers but got even more questions... This will hold you for a while then make you move. Just as good art or design would.
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GRAPHIC ARTIST
DEN ROSAS My name is Den Rosas. And I, as I think many people, started drawing when I was a child. I’ve study painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, among other things. I’ve also studied Arts in High School and College. But not only visual arts are important for me also music is very important in my life, from punk to pop and indie music among others. Music definitely influences my work..
These artworks are a part of a series called "Lovers". This serie has many pieces. All erotic, hand drawing and watercolor. All girl with botanic tattoos.
Each one of them is based on a song I listened at that moment so every one is very special as they tell a story to me and I always hope it will tell a story to the person who is seeing it.
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GRAPHIC ARTIST
MADHVI SINGHAL I was born in northern part of India (Chandigarh). I was raised in a artistic family where creativity was encouraged. My mother's folk art and father's creative hand always inspired me. Since childhood I had passion for art. I spent countless hours in exploring my passion and pursued my masters (MFA) in printmaking.Â
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GRAPHIC ART
Lemoboy My name is Ayman AbdelHakim also know as Lemoboy. I'm a graphic designer and self-taught artist from Egypt, most of my drawings are designed to describe everything around me.
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ILLUSTRATOR
Maria Sweeney Maria Sweeney is a Moldova-born, New Jersey-based freelance illustrator and comic artist. She graduated magma cum laude from Moore College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration. ’’Brittle Joints’’ won a Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo Mini-Grant in 2018. She has worked extensively in digital, oils, watercolors, and other traditional mediums. Aside from illustrating her current project, In A Rut Comics, she writes and self-publishes comics relating to her experience of navigating the world with a rare disability. When she’s not reading or sketching comics, she’s snuggling with her tiny dog, Bambi.
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ILLUSTRATOR
ROMA GUTIERREZ
My name is Roma and I'm a freelance illustrator and art director based in Granada, Spain. I’m addicted to any kind of art and creativity, I love drawing, photography, music, reading, writting, etc... For over 10 years, I’ve worked as an illustrator and art director for different companies and advertising agencies, covering several fields related to promotional advertising, packaging design, corporate identity and web design, among others. Currently I work as a freelancer, running my own studio.
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ILLUSTRATOR AND SCULPTORE
NIKLEWICZ VERSUS NIKLEWICZ There are three people named Adam Niklewicz. One is a firefighter living in Łomża, Poland and the other two reside in the U.S. First of the two is a sculptor and the other Adam Niklewicz is an illustrator. Some details of their lives happen to be remarkably similar. They both emigrated from Poland, settled on the East Coast, and both are active in the general field of visual arts.
Adam Niklewicz / illustration for The Chronicle of Higher Education / acrylic on board. and Adam Niklewicz / THE COOKBOOK OF ST. JEROME, 2018 / book, ladle, goat’s milk / 9” x 7” x 13”.
It is apparent that the Internet created a confusing blend out of their separate lives. Its heavy-handed approach (Google is helpless with the nuance, that Adam Niklewicz, the illustrator, is a left-handed individual, while Adam Niklewicz, the sculptor, is a right-handed one, etc) made the two feel a bit threatened by each other’s presence. The artists decided to make the best of the situation and are in the early planning stages of a two-man exhibition. The exhibition will examine similarities (and differences) that exist between two very different practices of two creatives who happen to share a name. The firefighter stays out of the picture.
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ILLUSTRATOR AND SCULPTOR NIKLEWICZ VERSUS NIKLEWICZ
Adam Niklewicz / illustration for Villanova University Magazine / acrylic on board. and Adam Niklewicz / WATERLENS, 2017 / inkjet print / 30” x 45” (edition of 3).
Adam Niklewicz has done cover illustrations for Newsweek, Time, Business Week, Atlantic Monthly and Harvard Business Review, among others. An extended list of his clients includes Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Playboy, USA Today, U.S.News & World Report, and countless more.
Adam Niklewicz / illustration for St. Martin’s Press / acrylic on board. and Adam Niklewicz / HANGOVER, 2018 / rock, tree branch, boot / 44’ x 24’ X 16”.
Adam Niklewicz is a sculptor whose work was featured and discussed in ARTnews, Art New England, Aesthetica, CNN Style, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, and The Huffington Post, among others. He has exhibited at contemporary art galleries throughout the USA and Europe. The venues include Hudson Valley MOCA (USA), The Venice Arsenale (Italy), Zacheta and GSW Opole (Poland), JUMP and Art-Zavod Platforma / Gogolfest (Ukraine.)
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ILLUSTRATOR
Ellis van der Does Ellis van der Does = Ellis D a Dutch illustrator and occasional animator based in London. If you take a trip to 'illustration wonderland' with her, you'll see popping colours and the use of different textures. Her style is clear and she often combines various forms and figures in order to create new stories.
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ILLUSTRATOR
TIM MURRAY
Ramshackle Shack: I would
Mason Jar: The humble mason
like to build or live in a place
jar is always going to be my
like this.
first choice for drinking vessel
Plumbing: Fluid complexity
Tim Murray is an illustrator and designer, photographer, book designer, environment designer based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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ILLUSTRATOR
AMIR B JAHANBIN
My name is Amir B Jahanbin. I'm a Brooklyn based digital artist with a focus in animation and illustration. The work is bright and colorful, and often cheeky. Each piece reflects a mood or thought which I bring to life through hypnotic looping animation and pastel tones.
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MUSIC
HATS OFF GENTLEMEN
Our new Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate double A-side single is now available as a prerelease digital download on Bandcamp . 'When I Was A Ship' was inspired by Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series. The main character had once been a warship, whose artificial mind had been distributed within the ship, and also within many ancillaries - prisoners who have had their minds wiped. The ship itself and all of the other ancillaries was destroyed, leaving just one fragment of the mind left in one body.Â
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MUSIC
ACOUSTICMADDIE: TACET
Acousticmaddie is a soundartist which means she creates new worlds and stories with sound. She plays several different instruments. and enjoys writing songs on the guitar, ukulele, keyboard, thin whistle, bass, harmonica, or whatever weird thing or instruments she finds in the attic. When she perform herself she loves to stick to Norse ballads or punk like this Swedish punk song “Dit inga drömmar nå”
"TACET (EP) Silence is one of the most important things in music. Without silence we would not be able to recognize the important sounds. TACET (in musical terms) indicates that a voice or instrument is silent. I wanted to use that metaphor to raise the voice of the silent.The ones running away from war. I do not think I have ever been so political in my music before and of course I Hope you like it." - Acousticmaddie
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EVENTS
VOTE - A GROUP SHOW OF ONE WORD
On view October 13 – November 15 , 2018 OPENING RECEPTION: October 20th Saturday 6 – 8:30 pm EBK Gallery . 218 Pearl St. Hartford, CT There is an election this November 6th. And it also happens to be one of the most important in U.S. history. EBK Gallery is excited to present a very timely exhibit that will run during this most important election. The exhibit is a group show of one word: vote, a most powerful word. A word that is an act, a symbol, an object, a possession, a weapon, a wish.
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EVENTS
IAMA (INTERNATIONAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC AWARDS)
The 15th Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards) promotes excellence in Acoustic Music Performance and Artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition. Win a Top Prize of US$11,000 worth of Prizes! ✔✔✔DEADLINE APPROACHING: Enter by November 9th or earlier. Hurry, Enter online Now >>
Here's more of what you need to know about IAMA: ✔IAMA boasts an excellent record —No other musician awards has the proven past history of winners
getting signed, hitting the charts and getting greater heights. It is THE best kept secret among musicians around. Past and present winners include: Meghan Trainor, Tim Schou, Bertie Higgins, Bellamy Brothers are just some of the winners. ✔Entering IAMA is so easy – enter online with your mp3, Soundcloud, YouTube or Reverbnation URL of
your song. ✔IAMA has an “Artist of .Month” feature. This means if you enter, you may get featured! ✔IAMA embraces progressive music artistry. Some of the artists that enter and win are not the traditional
acoustic and folk music artists, they expand and experiment music boundaries. If you are solely thinking of just Folk music, there are many genres in Acoustic music! ✔IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards) promotes excellence in Acoustic Music Performance and
Artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition. Win a Top Prize of US$11,000 worth of Prizes!
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INTERVIEW
RAMBLER: A FAMILY PUSHES THROUGH THE FOG OF MENTAL ILLNESS Linda K. Schmitmeyer’s memoir, “Rambler: A Family Pushes Through the Fog of Mental Illness,” is an intimate and forthright look at her experience of raising children with a husband who has a severe mental illness. Linda’s professional life has taken her from the classroom to the newsroom to a public relations office. Semi-retired now, she continues to work as a freelance writer and editor and adjunct university professor. The career constant—the thread running through it all—is her love for writing. She fondly recalls the first time she imagined herself a writer. In grade school at the time, she overheard an aunt praising a story she’d written about growing up in a large family. (She has 10 brothers and a sister.) But being a writer wasn’t something little girls living in the Midwest in the 1950s set out to be, so she became a teacher. Eventually she morphed into a writer. When not writing—or thinking about writing—she enjoys traveling and bicycling, with her husband, Steve. They have three adult children.
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How do you think your memoir, “Rambler,” will be helpful in 'writing away the stigma'? The stigma associated with mental illness is tricky to overcome because the symptoms involve a person’s behavior and thinking, making it difficult for people to think of the fluctuations they see in a person as an illness. Neuroscientists are making progress in diagnosing and understanding these disorders, but research is slow to affect how we think about them.
Eliminating stigma is most often achieved on a personal level, and that’s why my husband, Steve, and I feel it’s important to share our family’s story. In “Rambler,” I write openly and honestly about my experience of living with my husband’s bipolar disorder, at a time when we were raising our children. “Rambler” includes his writings, and that gives readers a more thorough picture of the experience. Hopefully this intimate, forthright telling will help others better understand the nature of mental illness, thus decreasing the stigma.
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What writing secret do you have that helps you present a realistic telling for families navigating a mental illness diagnosis? There is no “writing secret” that allows me to create a realistic telling of how to navigate a mental illness diagnosis. There are two factors, however, that contribute to my being able to write effectively about mental illness. First, I experienced first-hand the challenges of living with my husband’s illness, who was diagnosed when he was in his mid-40s. Because I’m a writer, I naturally turned to journaling throughout the acute stage of his illness.
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For example, when I asked my six-year-old daughter how she knew her daddy was sick after he got home from a month-long stay in a hospital psych ward, she told me that she knew he was because he no longer remembered what day it was, a comment I recorded in my journal. These kinds of details are included in “Rambler,” making it more realistic. Another factor in helping me write a personal narrative is that I wrote a newspaper column for almost two decades. Through years of first-person writing I developed a style in which I was able to share a personal story that has universal appeal. Specifically, “Rambler” is about our family’s struggle with mental illness, but it really speaks to anyone facing a life-altering illness.
What was the most difficult aspect of writing such a personal story? The easiest? It was extremely difficult to present a fair and honest telling of such an emotionally charged period of our lives. It took many years for me to gain the perspective necessary to write “Rambler.” After the tumultuous decade in which Steve’s mental health problems surfaced and resettled into a manageable routine, I was exhausted and angry. I needed time to process what happened and understand the myriad aspects of the experience. That includes being able to appreciate and write about Steve’s determination to
That, by far, was the most challenging aspect of telling this story. There really wasn’t anything easy about writing “Rambler,” except for the epilogue. It’s about a bicycle trip Steve and I took from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., more than a dozen years after his mood stabilized. It was in celebration of our 40th wedding anniversary. Every chapter in “Rambler” took months, some even years, before I was satisfied with them. I wrote the Epilogue in less than a week… and had fun writing it.
What inspires you as a person? As a writer?
recapture a semblance of the life he’d lost to an
Many things move me, both as a person and a
illness; acknowledging the support of friends and
writer. A walk in the woods. An elderly face
family, even from those who steadfastly denied he
creased with wisdom. A child’s chubby hand.
had an illness; understanding the role Steve’s and
Stories of people who push through and persevere.
my upbringing played in dealing with his illness;
But I believe that creativity comes more from
and learning to trust my intuition when
within, especially as it pertains to writing. In order
responding to Steve’s manic, depressive, and
to write “Rambler,” I had to learn how to look
psychotic episodes. I wanted “Rambler” to reflect
inward, to be quiet before sitting down to write. I
what really happens inside a home when someone
often meditated as a way of achieving a focus that
has a mental illness.
allowed me to hear the story in me.
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What is the takeaway you hope readers will understand or learn after reading Rambler?
In the early stages of Steve’s illness, when he was depressed, I saw it as a weakness of character. Nothing could be further from the truth. As an educator, I naturally sought opportunities to
There are several takeaways from reading
learn more about what was happening in our
“Rambler,” foremost among them is that severe
family. I attended workshops sponsored by the
mental illness is treatable. Good medical care, the
National Alliance on Mental Illness and went with
love and support of family and friends, and the grit
Steve to many of his psychiatrist appointments, all
and determination of the people involved—the
while trying to wrap my mind around the baffling
person with the illness as well as the caregivers—
illness. It was a steep learning curve, one that
are vital in recapturing a life derailed by mental
would take years for me to work through and a
illness.
lifetime to really understand. But I remained open to new ways of thinking about what was
Another important point in Rambler, one essential
happening, which was important in facing our
for anyone caring for a loved one with a mental
family challenge.
illness, is to remain open to the experience.
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