Category: caregiving

• Orange Baby

  2–3 minutes

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  05/17/2025

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  author, bipolar artist, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, death, disability, faith, gratitude, grief, hospice, love, Mania, memoir, mental illness, mothers, pain, poems, Salvation, sanity, self worth, shih-tzus, sobriety, Therapy

  CHAPTER 4 THE SAGA CONTINUES      I got off track in the last chapter…      Too many offshoots and alleyways. Let’s move along a few years to 2020…Pandemic lock down, I’m working on Zoom with some friends. Suddenly, Donna breaks in with a plea, ” Would anyone like a Maine Coon kitten?” All the girls…

  

• AM I FAMOUS YET?

  2–4 minutes

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  11/12/2020

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  art, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Employment, Finances, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, shih-tzus, sobriety, Teaching, Therapy

  “…I was a rebel…not knowing thousands of feet had gone down that same road days…months…centuries before…”

  

• Yellow Belly.

  1–2 minutes

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  10/04/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, cats, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, HighFinance, Hope, hospice, identity, Impressionist, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, oceans, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Success, Surrealism, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized, Vigil, voyages

  …Random Words, Targeted Pain….Red, Yellow, Green and Brown Pain…White Pain…My Pain…

  

• The Door is Wide Open

  1–2 minutes

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  08/26/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings

  There are ideas percolating just beneath the surface of my consciousness. They are not fully fleshed out but the juices are flowing and I feel “on the verge” of a breakout work. What is a ‘breakout work’ you ask? Well, I’m asking too, and I believe there is a new direction coming. I have been…

  

• I Miss What I Imagined I would Miss

  2–3 minutes

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  08/03/2020

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  alzheimers, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Cancer, caregiving, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, paradise Earth, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Ransom sacrifice, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Saving Money, Serenity, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, Success, Teaching, The Bible, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Universal Sovereign

  …the room seems to awaken with her…golden rays fall…like the petals of an opening rose…

  

• “INSIDE VOICE” a New Series of Works

  3–5 minutes

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  08/01/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, Uncategorized

  “…look into this inner world and I promise I will use my “INSIDE VOICE”.

  

• The Journey, a Debut Art Video

  3–5 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, disability, dreams, faith, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Jehovah God, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, repentance, Resurrection, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Vigil

    .  This project was a couple years in the making for me, and was born from the bottomless grief I was dealing with then. As caregiver to both of my parents after a 23 year-long active addiction, and after a devestating breakup of my marriage when my ex went to Federal Prison, I was…

  

• MAKING ART to QUIET MY NERVES!!!

  2–3 minutes

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  04/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, garden Photography, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Job, Joy, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, Serenity, shih-tzus, Success, Therapy

  I don’t know about you , but I’ll starting to feel it…It’s like a weak electric current close to the floor , strengthening as each day passes… More awful news, more isolation and “distancing”-the current gets a little stronger moving to the top of my legs now. I’m getting antsy, and even though I have…