greetings Vida

Our hardships test our faithfulness, and thus our pictures are our response. Just look at the photo above. You will see not the complaints but the passionate gratitude for the remaining alive.

Wow, THANK YOU!
We were awarded by Sharon Hart.


A saying goes "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it" Thus let me pass these wonderful awards to all of you, dear bloggers. Thank you!

mystery of love

7 Wonders of the World are listed here and here... they inhabit our diaries everywhere. In short, 7 Wonders of the World may be described as human capacities to see, to hear, to touch, to taste, to feel, to laugh and to love . These are the different miracles but reveal the same spirit that blossoms at Egypt’s Great Pyramids and China’s Great Wall and sits us back in awe in St. Peter’s Basilica . The failure to discern that produces a mess and puts us in despair. That’s why there are just 7 Wonders, while they should be recognized in every single our step.

Help us meet the Christmas

We know well the cost of the oil, but how much cost the love? Hospitals for people with psychiatric disorders has bad reputation , but out hears are tested there. The patients ha nothing in literal sense of the word, but the miracles happens - one gifts a pencil, other a sheet of paper and the physical darkens becomes the incredible light - fairy tales revive due to your donations, Your support enables us to live.
Dear bloggers, dear people of good will, help us to share thank you. We eagerly wait for your donations - help us survive and share the love. I am awaiting for your donations at the address below:

my correct mailing address:

Liepu 25-31
Klaipeda 92139
Lithuania

Tomas Karkalas

This art therapy blog is kept on a voluntarily basis of the jobless disabled. I earn nothing and I would greatly appreciate your help to cover the Internet expenses. Thank you in advance for your money transferring through Western Union - that's the fastest way to send money worldwide - to share the love. God blesses you.

one must meet oneself

The author of this picture is a woman with the shining eyes. Her heart is full of love ... you see that for yourself. Thus you may be surprised, why did I not name her?
The logical question made the colors of the applique above sparkle with double strength. The world dont doubt in the righteousness of his judgment and call people with psychiatric disorders the fools - scoff at them. The world fleers at oneself by doing thus, but the Modus Vivendi artists meet dark clouds with the palettes full of paints of trust in love.
I heartily invite you to open the heavy door of the hospital for the people with psychiatric disorders and welcome the people there - lets look at oneself and listen to the heart.

Notebook of the disabled

It is easy to pull out thick tooth and the broken leg may be healed too. The modern medicine is quick to restore the order of the human flesh. Does it mean that the life became heaven on earth?

I put on my best suit and went out into the street. Wow, the day was sunny, everything around just sparkled - the light pictured a fabulous story. Just have a look. The roar of the cars mixed up with the scent of the flowers, has silenced, and the wind was piercing me with the unforgettable aroma. I step into awe. While watching TV, I was used to identify myself with each hero of the screen. That was easy to do, but everything looked otherwise in reality. I didn't hear any "to be or not to be", there were no aimless wandering too; all people were sparkling with joyful vitality. I felt myself a stranger to the people of the street, a tourist without a guide in the unknown world.

Who am I? The question was demanding. Am I one from the street (one of you), or the ghost?

I lifted my eyes up to the heaven and my look has discovered lots of closed windows that were drifting above the street. I wasn't alone. Lots of people were not accepted into the feast of a day.

The illness trouble us in various ways, but there is one common feature. Though the sickness has many forms and the hardships differ between, but all complaints have one in common. That's the recognition of self as a burden to our beloved and the world. Such feeling is the daily bread of people with psychiatric disorders. In case you have some belly problems or the alike disorders, the chemist's shop offers all cures that you feel need in to recover your health, but the world's generosity ends if you are feeling some psychiatric disorders. Rude address "You are a fool" typically replaces the medicine then and such outlook towards the one who have questioned himself "what for this play" hurts the most... The situation was dark until I faced a banner today











Let's change our outlook towards one other. Not all of us can be the boxing champions, as well as just few of us reaches the heights of the math an alike, but we all are brothers and sisters in spirit and we all walk under the same sky

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I will greatly appreciate your help to share my pictures and maxims with everyone who is longing for the light. Have a look at my blog http://candleday.wordpress.com
You will have a good time there and your feedback will make my day.

Insights of the palette

The picture you see the above was made by Vida. She actively participates in the life of art therapy club Modus Vivendi, and her drawings reflect as her personal outlook towards the beauty of the nature, as the longings of most patients of the hospital for the people with psychiatric disorders.

Art therapy deals not with the surgical treatment, but the affairs of the heart. We may found lots of various drugs in our medicine chest, but no one of them fit to answer what for we live there and now. Lots of various pills may be found in our medicine chest, but there is one universal cure from all possible diseases – that’s your feedbacks. Our outlook on one other (the wholeheartedness of your responses) helps recover from all diseases and enables us rejoicing over the aroma of the flowers which blossom with all possible colors in a sunny fields, but wither in thick shadows of the loneliness.

That's the truth

We both are alike

Is it all that have remained?

Today I have entered the room of the hospital for people with psychiatric disorders. I have noticed strange pictures on the windows. Social worker Stase Ridikiene has said that they were drawn by one of the patience, who has left us already for some years. These pictures were all that remains from formerly so cheerful person.

Was it indeed all that was left by our friend?

the interest was great

International exhibition Watercolor-2006 is traveling around Lithuania. Now it is opened in Plunge. However, how does it relate with art therapy club of the hospital for the people with psychiatric disorders?
Renate Lūšis, the heart of “Modus Vivendi”, is not only the art therapist, but the famous artist and the manager of that show. Thus she provides members of the club with an opportunity to stay in touch with what happens in the world of modern art today.
As football zealots follow their team over the world so "Modus Vivendi" visits art exhibitions. Though that would be beneficial to each of us, but it is of exceptional value to people with mental troubles.
Though all the disabled encounter lots of hardships at integration in social life, but the world looks exceptionally hostile towards the people with the diagnosis of mental disease. They feel themselves as if imprisoned for life, and thus every single trip into the life outside the halls of the hospital becomes the real miracle. Therefore I am deeply convinced that the trips with Renate Lūšis are of much more great importance than just visiting one or other exhibition.

While visiting the exhibitions, Modus Vivendi meets with their destiny brothers in towns the art show is opened. Such way the Watercolor-2006 exhibition becomes the powerful medicine for restoration of trust in people around us and life of it self. Trips of Modus Vivendi should be named not as visits to the art exhibition, but as example of love that is put into action.

Plunge
While looking at the photo below the incredible peace fills the heart. Have a look yourself. It is hard to discern the picture of lace on Rasa’ palm in this shot, but it is impossible not to rejoice at the lively interest of people around


the interest was great.

Romas and "Modus Vivendi" wish you happy Valentine's Day