• Soliloquy

    Youth Support Workers talking aloud to themselves

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    Dance, Love, Sing and Live as though...

    by Naturally Abstemious Muse posted at 8/16/2011 9:16:29 AM

     

    DANCE as though no one is watching
    LOVE as though you've never been hurt
    SING as though no one can hear you
    LIVE as though Heaven is on Earth. - Souza          

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    Xiao Kang: Fictional character with a haunting story

    by Naturally Abstemious Muse posted at 8/15/2011 1:33:07 PM
    A few years ago, a colleague of mine had shown me a website that had left me feeling disturbed and somewhat shaken. The website was supposedly a photo journal of a youth aged 26 years old, named “Wu Xiao Kang” who was afflicted with schizophrenia, where he had taken the laborious effort to capture haunting snippets of his journey through a debilitated mental hospital building to his final fall from the building. The images with its simple depiction of inanimate objects of the door railings, pharmacy counter, stairwell, broken window panes and parts of a building long forgotten contrasted against a blue sky can leave behind such a profound impression.