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The right amount of sleep is very important to every person. How many hours will vary from person to person, and their schedule of sleep may also vary widely. Many people think they are depressed when actually they may be sleep deprived, and enough sleep depravation may bring on all sorts of mental and physical manifestations and once a simple problem may turn complex and possibly overwhelming.
Harry Croghan
I write this from an artist’s point of view and I know how important sleep is for the creative process. But I also look at it through a business owner, father and grandfather’s view. Sleep depravation is one of our most constant psychological and physical social problems, yet, we rarely really talk about it in our schools, churches and businesses. As long as we supposedly get our work done, no one cares about the cost.
We need creative people now more than any other time in history. It’s been said, and I believe it to be very true, that if we want to come out of this recession, we have to make something — something that can be sold. But there’s a second part to all this: We must keep that new idea here in our own country to be made here.
Harry Croghan
Some say, well, that sounds easy enough. What do we make? Everything worth anything has already been made. Not true! Very untrue! There isn’t one item in our home that couldn’t be improved upon and sometimes it doesn’t take lightning striking a person to see what can be done to make things better. Take for example, the water heater. It is a great user of energy. A simple redesign of a house and the location of pipes could have the hot water heater in the middle of where it is needed and not only save on hot water pipes but the time and wasted water used to wait for the water to be hot. Of course, most of us know about the on demand hot water heater. A great idea, heading in the right direction, but it’s a little expensive yet for most homeowners.
Harry Croghan
There’s a lot of motivations for painting, and they sometimes change over the years of a lifetime. When I was young, I drew and painted because I felt I couldn’t do anything else very well. As I grew older, I found that was not really true. Thanks to some very patient and excellent teachers, I managed to survive my middle school years. Even at that young age, I had to repeat sixth grade because of my inability to read and recall. I struggled with every word, yet all was not lost because I failed a grade. In fact, I see now that it set up a new time schedule for my life. It’s very unlikely I would have met my wife of 46 years and that, as I see it now, would have been a very personal disaster. Even though I had failed a grade and went to work upon graduation from high school, a year later I did start college with a small art scholarship. Four and a half years later, I graduated. This only reiterates the saying of never giving up on a dream or goal. Failures become stepping stones if you can look beyond the disappointment. Read the rest of this entry »
Harry Croghan
I’m one of those people who suffers from the winter blahs — too little sunlight and too much night. I feel that many of us suffer from the same condition, and as we get older, things seem to become amplified. Many people think changing the light bulbs in our house will make a difference, and, sometimes, I believe they do. These new energy-saving light bulbs though don’t seem to give off as much light as promised. Of course, this may be due in part that I don’t see as well as I did. The grandchildren seem to do just fine in lower light levels where I can’t even distinguish words.
The trees stood together in a very surreal world. The sunlight made them glow.
By Harry Croghan
The Gallery on High is filled with creative expressions from our own local youngsters. “It’s filled with happy colors,” says professional artist and designer Kim Lattimer.
The colors at The Gallery on High are vivid and eye-catching.
