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Sunset at the house. Christmas lights still up... :) #sunsets #christmaslights

Doing some drawing while listening to #barbrastreisand on Netflix. #botanicallinedrawing #blackandwhite Doesn't get any better on a Saturday night by yourself.

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Painting along with @yaochengdesign and @creativebug 31 days of flowers and watercolour. Had my new Charvin Gouache from @the_sydneyartstore and Koi 12 watercolour palette on hand. First attempt and I'm not unhappy with it. 30 more flowers to go. #creativebug

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My fabric 'Scooters' on my @spoonflower shop - SOLD 3 yards! Woo-hoo. The whole collection is on my @spoonflower shop. https:/www.spoonflower.com/collections/28574-scooter-by-designedtoat

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Josef Frank, textile design Bows, 1960. Linen, cotton. Via Cooper-Hewitt.

Frank’s interest in pattern design was not unique among Viennese architects; like Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Czeschka, and Dagobert Peche, he produced several early designs for the Wiener Werkstätte. Unlike other Wiener Werkstätte designers who created a unified design scheme by using the same pattern throughout an interior—on textiles, wallcoverings, and even fashion—Frank preferred an eclectic combination of fabrics in his interiors.

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Rikers Island is an infamous New York City jail where people with mental health conditions are nearly 40% of the population. Many have been injured or been murdered there, or, like Kalief Browder, have died by suicide as a result of being incarcerated there. Even The NY Times has called for Rikers to be closed, and Just Leadership USA is leading a campaign to close it down. How can the mental health advocacy community help?

Abuses in the prison system have affected my family, so I can at least speak from those experiences.

My father died in the prison system at the age of 45 due to liver failure (he was an alcoholic and had contracted Hepatitis C). I saw him on Christmas Day of 2007. He was sickly and gaunt, with a distended belly that protruded so intensely that it looked like he might birth triplets at any moment. He wasn’t getting the medical care he needed, no matter how much he requested it or how sick he got. He died two months later, alone in a hospital, shackled to a bed. I was his next-of-kin, and I was not notified that he was dying. The only communication I received from the Florida prison system was a call ten hours after my father’s death, informing me that inmate Marc Stage had “expired,” and asking if I would like to collect the body.

Along with the alcoholism, my father had a comorbid mental health diagnosis. I don’t know how much of a role it played in his experiences as an incarcerated person, outside of its manifestations getting him into the troubles that resulted in incarceration. I don’t know if he sought services. I don’t know if he suffered abuses related to his mental health.

Even with the research I’ve done on Rikers, I don’t know if reform or closure is a better answer. I don’t see either being achieved easily because of larger systemic ills.

As far as what the advocacy community can do, we can do what we do best: raise our voices, shake things up, study the system and infiltrate it to further expose the abuses the inmates are suffering, volunteer, spend time with the inmates, advocate for the ones who have no one to advocate for them, and fight, fight, fight until we achieve the change we seek.

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T-minus three days until the Election Day. What does your ballot have to do with mental health? The government spends billions each year on research and treatment through the NIH, SAMHSA, the VA, Medicare, and other agencies. If you or someone you know suffers from mental illness, you know how important those programs are.

Post It Forward (@postitforward) recently hosted an Issue Time panel on mental health awareness with experts in the field. Before you go vote, take a few minutes to remind yourself that what’s at stake doesn’t always make headlines.

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As an Aussie, looking from the outside in, I despair for what will be the new America if Donald Trump is elected. And I’m going to put it as simply as he seems to be able to do when discussing women...’I don’t like the way he looks, and I don’t like what comes out of his mouth!’ You guys are in a position that we have been in since the 80′s in Australia, you have to vote for someone, and it generally ends up being ‘the best of a bad bunch’! Good Luck America!