Learning to live in this SURreality / Because of Maslow, Seeking more Word Pictures ideas, have a dedicated suggestion email

This is another image I made from one of my pictures of myself through the bug-eaten hollyhock leaf.

It does a great job portraying how I experience and interact with my SURreality, both internal and external.

I've managed to learn ways to work through the fibrofog to keep up with email, but not interact on the blogs or facebook yet.

One thing that has become increasingly obvious though is that I need to be doing more of the Word Pictures. They satisfy so many of my needs, needs on every level of Maslow's hierarchy.

Art and creativity address the very basic, fundamental needs of safety for someone in chronic pain because pain threatens EVERYTHING at the most basic level of Maslow- see below.

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I could get going on how art therapy ties in to nearly every level, but for now, the key points are:

By providing distraction & relaxation, it reduces pain or at least my awareness of it. That's at the base.

By providing me a way to still live out my purpose in life, which is to help those who are sick and suffering, the outcasts and estranges, the least of Christ's brethren, it addresses the top two levels.

Therefor it is my intention to spend some time each day on Word Pictures, either creating new ones or doing variations of ones I've already done, such as converting color to good monotone, doing portrait versions of ones in landscape format and vice versa, and so forth.

I've finally found a good image hosting site, http://imageshack.us so I'll be able to post ALL the pictures easily in one place.

To make it easier for people to suggest new Word Pictures or request variations on old ones, I created a dedicated email account. Now, I NEVER publish email addresses in plain text... I'm hesitant to even put them in EMAIL! I think there is more spam out there than even dark matter.

So here is the email for suggestions, requests, etc. I embedded it in a Word Picture I started of a hymn, but abandoned because there are trash cans in the background. I have another one about half done.