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Carrie Fisher

6/7/2017

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Carrie Fisher, may she Rest In Peace, battled her mental illness for years, sometimes quite publicly. But I was surprised to learn that she credited electroshock therapy with helping her to cope with the depression. My Grandma Layton didn't have the positive experience of that therapy. But, at one of her darkest hours, it offered hope, and her thirteen treatments were completed before she found the healing art of Blind Contour Drawing. An excerpt, titled "Transverse Shadows", from her biography/memoir, Signs Along The Way:
I was cold, hard marble. Despair and fear are at least feelings, and very intense ones. And affection is better than none. Having once been sensitive, I recalled the sensations, and as with pain, I could and did hold and ex­amine them. Now I was unable to experience them.
In this vacuum I wanted to make dejection and fear my friends, the way a person in unbearable suffering makes friends with his pain, groping the way to death.
I wanted to feel my way back to life, even if I had to endure death to do it.
Different experiences with different results. But Carrie and Grandma shared a common denominator: living with, and battling to overcome their disease by expressing themselves -  some way, somehow. Carrie wrote, acted, and advocated. Grandma Layton wrote, drew, and advocated. I am glad they both have found peace. - Judy Kay
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12/17/2020 06:42:54 am

This was a lovely blog post

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    If an inquisitive somebody were to demand a DNA analysis be done on the 3 sisters, he may not be surprised to find those twisted strands are coated with a healthy dose of printer's ink, given our pedigree and the many literary contributions from our maternal ancestors:
    Great-great-grandaunt 
    Florence Finch Kelly: 19th & 20th century Journalist/Novelist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Finch_Kelly
    Great-grandfather Asa Finch Converse: http://www.franklincokshistory.org/people-2/300-revision-v1/converse-asa-finch/
    Grandmother Elizabeth Hope Converse Nichols Layton: Newspaper Publisher/Editor, author, poet and artist. http://www.elizabethlayton.com
     Asa Finch Converse: Newspaper Publisher/Editor.
    Great-grandmother May Frink Converse: Columnist/Editor and Poet Laureate. http://www.franklincokshistory.org/peom/

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