Beautiful work, an insta-save and insta-fave. Expression on muzzle and face says complete
wolf-gleeful. We must presume they run just for the fun and play of it.

     Perhaps less gleeful, the out-of-shot prey being chased. :- ) TY for the post.

FB.


(PS: If depression still burdens--as for many writers and artists--note that
winter will be easing up soon. Watch your calendar.)





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Thanks for the compliment, I really appreciate it. And yes, I believe they do run just for the fun of it. And for meals. :x
Cats...not so much, they'd rather lounge.

Thanks also for your concern, but unfortunately I don't suffer from S.A.D.D., so my struggles are year-round and independent of the weather. I've been treating it for over ten years and have yet to make an effective break through. :/

     Given the two cats lounging on top of me right now, I do believe you're right. :- )

     FYI, the fave is over on my main account,  fwbrown61, not on this account. Tsk,
not paying attention to where I'm logged in.



     The Black Dogs--as Churchill called it--have been a part of my life for about thirty years, to
varying degrees, there being ample bite marks on my ass to prove it (Howzzat for an odd bit
of one-upmanship?).

     Cope, endure, persevere, are poor words to say, but they're a vast improvement on 'give up,'
y'know? The medical folks who say that, permish granted to boot 'em in the head until
they smarten up. (This may be redundant advice.)

     Think a reasonable goal is such effective ways and means of treatment that a more-or-less
manageable life can be achieved. However fragile the stability (Ie., me). There's weight
to the theory that as writers and artists, our creativity renders us more riskily prone
to the Dark Puppies. This is not precisely useful knowledge, is it?

     Go away, ya mangy hounds, I've already got a Retriever-Shep mix. I don't need any...
whatever-the-hell breed you are. :- )



     That said, in light of art like this piece, and however much of a dog fight you've got on your
paws, it's a fight worth winning if you can do more like the above. Audubon grade.

 fwbrown61

Thanks for your support and sharing your own struggles, it does seem to lighten your burden when you know someone else is carrying the same weight. I have noticed the trend between creativity and depression/emotional difficulty. I must say that if I had the choice of trading in my creativity for a more stable life I wouldn't. And thinking of it as a puppy nipping at my heals also seems to make it more manageable, if not a little less unfamiliar, and slightly cute.

     From what [little] I know of Churchill, he was referring to the Black Dogs in the sense of
canines the size of a London bus, not puppies that's for sure. Fangs on the same scale.
He had a *lot* of trouble with depression, all his life.

     As do many people. I'll frankly wonder at how comparatively horseshoe-up-the-ass lucky
I've been, in my trials with it. An occasional, and somewhat predictable thing, and typically
limited in both time and severity.

     Bad puppies. Bad, bad. I wanted to get some writing done this week. As the house
chaos piles up to near-toxic levels. :- ) Not precisely a disabling problem here (although
there are other aspects to this that are).



     Some humour, some knowledge, some perspective may not cure, but they are critical
to the essential job. Ie., managing things. If you can keep The Dogs from eating your
ass, you're far, farther ahead of the game than most.

     One line of thought I read suggests that these problems relate to how our mind and
brain have been set up [in an evolutionary sense] to handle stress. Or mishandles, that is.
More useful knowledge there. Take as you will.

     And this connects to creativity how? Possibly quite practically. After all, when our
ancient ancestors were under the stress of some *big* fangs chasing their ass, the
ones who got creative fast were the ones that lived. Has this left a trace in our
neurochemistry, in how and why our brain innovates and creates? Oh yah.



     Thus allowing us to create websites that are loaded with fangs from top to bottom.
And with a lot of asses on display too. Hmmm. Have we really invented anything
new here? :- )

 fwbrown61