Survival

So hello again,

This is a surprisingly recent post from the last one (at least for me), but life has a way of saving itself for you, to give you large doses of itself every now and again.

For me, the past couple of days have been hectic. If I had less metal stamina, they might have been stressful, but sometimes you have to laugh when your mother goes to the hospital, and the next morning you're up at 8 to help re-carpet the house your parents are about to move out of seperatly. Life, it seems, has no qualms about mashing those activities together.

So all in all, not exactly the greatest of days. Fun, but not nice. One thing I found, though, was an interesting blog called 'I Wrote This For You'. I Wrote This For You is a project created by Iain Thomas, a nurse who works at the Valkenburg insane asylum in Cape Town. The notes are scrawled by several of the patients and collected by Iain Thomas at the start of every week.

The pictures are supplied by the Magnesium Photography agency in Japan, and are curated and managed by Japanese artist and recluse, Jon Ellis as a “charity project.”

The pictures and quotes are sold as postcards in the hospital shop, with proceeds going directly to the inmates. It's a thought provoking and hauntingly beautiful site that makes you stop and think, which today is no small feat. Try it out. Check it out. I like it


Jonathan