I have a good friend who has depression and  anxiety and she recently told me again how the decline  of the physical world we live in is upsetting her. It's a reasonable fear to have. It's an ongoing worry to many of us. I have to stop myself from thinking about it too much sometimes distracting myself with watching something something else like a movie or Britbox. The non-stop coverage of it is troubling. What can we do? It seems insurmountable and that we're already doomed. And doom has been on my mind for all of my life. What will happen? What can I do? I believe individuals can do something to help lessen the effects and reduce our individual angst about the whole thing. So I say start where you are.  I assembled a list that is aimed at getting by on the cheap at the same time. SO HERE GOES 1. Recycle whatever you can in your home. This means having a box, container or bag in your kitchen to use as a recycling bin. Empty it when it gets full int...

Painter Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986) lived with depression throughout her long life. Born in Sun Prairie Wisconsin, she is considered one of the master's of 20th Century modernism; A pioneer for women in art. She is probably the best known female American artist of the twentieth century. She carved out her own style apart from the chaos in modernist abstractionist painting and lived her life on her own terms. She paved the way for women artists (along with some others like Alice Neel.)  She spent much time in New York with her husband, photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in the early stages of her career. She left for the sunshine of New Mexico in 1929 and made that her home. Known for abstract flowers and bleached cattle skulls in her work (did she know they would be part of a twenty-first design craze?)  She lived in the kind of adobe house that your picture when you think of Santa Fe and set up her studio there. Often painting outdoors and laying under he...