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Ever get the feeling that depression in artists has given the world some of its greatest art?
Riots in London, stock free-fall, joblessness, illness; it all is really getting to me. So I have been doing some journal therapy.
When the world cannot satisfy our longings, what do we do?
I turn to the papers and inks and paints, throw in some markers.....and just play.
Here is one of the results:

"Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands." --May Sarton