Documenting life...: Where is My Solace

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Where is My Solace

My sister Jana wrote a beautiful book a while back about her experiences with depression. She just put it on a blog so it's online!! It's amazing....even if you don't struggle yourself with it, or know anyone who does (I'm sure you do- you just don't know it), it's for everyone.

Where is My Solace

If you read it...let us know what you thought!!! Loves to you Jana!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks for sharing this Jen.; April 3, 2008 at 9:29 AM
smilingsarahbear said...: I hope you don't mind but I happened in on your blog and I just wanted to pop in and tell you how much I love it! I actually was in Jana's ward in Mesa 61st ward for too short a time so I didn't really get to know her, but what little I did I knew she was amazing. Anyway, I'm hooked on your blog now. I left a comment (anonymous) on your trials post and I just want to say how awesome it was for you to do that. And I hope you don't mind but I would like to add something of this sort to my blog as well. Anyway... keep up the great work! (Oh- and I added you to my blog links... hope that's ok!) Thanks again!; April 3, 2008 at 11:27 PM
Emily said...: I'm on Chapter 2, and I'm really loving it. I have to force myself to stop reading and actually be productive with my kids. So...I'll slowly make my way through it. Thank you for sharing such a tough experience.; April 4, 2008 at 10:41 AM
chelle said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; April 4, 2008 at 11:15 AM
chelle said...: HI Jen and Jana, Love this. I just have read a little but I am looking forward to reading the rest ASAMLLM (as soon as my life lets me!) Thanks for posting this. m; April 4, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Jackie said...: I'm going to share this with Spence. He suffered from chemical depression that hit him 6 months into his mission. He had to come home and be hospitalized. He tried to get well enough to return back to London to complete his mission, but wasn't able to. He is very knowledgeable on the subject and started a support group for return missionaries who suffered with depression. He helped a lot of people- literally their lives at times. Maybe that was his mission instead. :-); April 4, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Michelle Arnett said...: So, this is funny that I looked at the picture and thought, "who is Jen with?!?!" This guy is her solace? Shouldn't Jasper be her solace? Until I realized it was your sister!!! Haha. It got a good laugh out of me.; April 7, 2008 at 1:08 PM
manda carol said...: You girls are so amazingly talented. I have loved reading Jana's blog. It has brought me tremendous peace as I've read through it. Thank you!; April 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Andrea said...: I've read it already and skimmed through it a couple more times. I also have had my mom reading it. Jana did a wonderful job. Thanks for sharing it with me, Jana! It has really helped put things into perspective!; April 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM
Sandy said...: Thanks so much for sharing..; April 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM

Out of the mouths of babes

5/11 Tae: "My dad is bigger than my mom and my mom is mini-er than my dad"
5/11 Tae: "Don't coffee me!!!" she and paige seem to think the word for copy is actually coffee.
05/11 Tae: After going in the front yard after me telling her not to.. " oh mom, I accidentally thought the front was the back"
03/09: Maddie: " Why do we have to pay taxes? Why do they have to have laws...like pay your taxes? Or don't stand on swivel chairs?" Ha ha!!
12/08: Tanner: "mom, don't pick your nose and throw it on the ground or you will slip on it like a banana peel. So you have to put it on a picture, or a high shelf"
Tae 3/09: Today she was looking for little scab on her hand and noticed it was gone. So she said "Mom, my owie went home!"
2/09 Maddie: Kimi is eating a burger, Mad hates red meat. "Mmmm, that looks good" Me: "But you don't even like hamburgers!" Maddie: "But if it were the only food left on earth, I'd pound it."
12/08 Tanner: "Mom, when can we get out our bean stocks?" I realized he was talking about Christmas Stockings. :)
11/08 I'm in the bathroom, alone. But never really alone. Maddie comes to the door and says "mom what was your best moment?" Uh, can we talk about this later?
11/08 Tanner: "Mom, is my bones warm or hot?" later that day..."I wish our house was made of nachos." Ya, me too.
10/08 Me" Well Maddie when I was little I only got a quarter or 50 cents for a tooth" Maddie" Ya, well that was in the OLDEN DAYS mom! The tooth fairy hardly had any money then."
9/08 Tan:" Mom, when you have the new baby, will we sell Taelyn?"
01/08 Maddie: "Guess what Mom, when I lose my front tooth the tooth fairy brings me $20" What?? Who said that? "A girl in my class! I'm so excited to get my very own $20!"
10/07 Madeline: "Mom I remember what it was like to live with Jesus before I was born" Oh really? "Ya, it looked just like it does here, but it was on clouds."
09/07 Tanner: "Mom sometimes your mean to me, but Sister Castleberry (nursery teacher) is always nice to me...like this many times ( he holds up his little 5 fingers right in my face)" How cute is he??
Just the other day Madeline came to me after practicing some intricate dance moves with Jaren and said "Mom, I just wish I could marry Jaren because he dances with me, he does whatever I say, and he's such a gooood guy. Why can't I marry my brother? " I then explained just why we don't marry our siblings. Hopefully she'll have no problem finding a guy just like Jaren in 20 years.
"Shake your bootie, shake your bootie..." This goes along with a mooning of sorts by the 3 yr. old Tanner
“Do you wish you were Dad so you wouldn’t have to change Taelyn’s diaper or do all the work, and you could be at church on time?” -Maddie
"I'm the last number strong" -Jaren

Deep Thoughts...

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.

Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.