Midweek Mental Greening
If you’re interested in the connection between the environment and your mental health - and you enjoy writing or creating art - here’s a treat for you:
The Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, New York, is seeking submissions for its Summer 2009 issue of States of Mind, “Nature as Nurture: Mental Health and the Environment,” and if you don’t live in New York, don’t fret - I was fortunate enough to email with with States of Mind Editor Celia Smith who assured me the call for submissions is open to all interested parties; however, available slots are filling up fast and inclusion will be highly selective.
Plus, the deadline is…
….tomorrow! July 1, 2009!
Sounds like a challenge!
Acceptable entries include artwork (in a reproducible format that will translate well into a black-and-white format) and poems, stories, and personal accounts (between 700-1,000 words long) and you can submit them in one of three ways:
- Via email to info@mhaedu.org. Note that you can either paste your poem, story, or personal account directly into the email or attach it as a .doc or .rtf format only.
- Mail your entry to: Mental Health Association, Attn: Editor, States of Mind, 614 W. State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
- Hand deliver your entry to the same address (which Ms. Smith points out is the best method for artwork).
If this deadline’s too soon for you, or you aren’t into writing or art, you can still benefit from others’ work. The completed issues should be printed in August and you can send a formal request for one along with $1.10 to cover postage to the address above.
Good luck to all who enter!
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“Call for Submissions: Nature as Nurture: Mental Health and the Environment”
very interesting. However, does nature cause nurture or simply does it interact with it? arent we all products of our environments? some of which are controllable and others that are not, and then there are those that SEEM out of our control…
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Human Nature
Raging winds and rain.
Cataclysmic interconnections.
A wild ride through ever disintegrating times.
Can we assimilate where we’ve been?
Ancient footfalls inexorably emerging into
battering rams, explosions, firey projectiles,
grief, despair, immolation, utter destruction.
Can we feel the pull into the maelstrom,
powers ripping our being into basic components,
the essence of nature?
Perhaps there was/is/will be
a time of peaceful reflection,
hoped for abundance,
shared joy and laughter,
ecstatic entertainment
moving us higher through an upward spiral
of feeling so good, feeling so free, feeling so loved.
Perhaps it is here, around an unseen corner,
ever available, to those who can perceive,
who can let go of misperception and it’s
hate-filled companions.
Perhaps the only solace is in stolen moments,
the sweet taste of summer wine,
the innocent joy of uncomplicated affection,
the pure sensuality of passionate dance.
Perhaps these will tell us,
if and when we stop to listen,
will lead us to the promised land.
@ sooraj singh - I do believe to some degree we are products of our environments, but, I also believe it’s up to us to be mindful of those environments - take the good that’s there, and make it work for us, as well as recognize the bad that’s there, and fight against letting it “shape” us. Thanks for the link - it looks like you’ve got a good start!
@ libramoon - Lovely! Did you submit it to States of Mind?
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