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That Itch…. (Texas and Red Dirt Country #2)

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This post originally appeared in BattleRedBlog as a FanPost

In the comments to my first post in this series, JFMC said that this is the time of year that he starts getting into this genre of music. This got me to thinking that Texas Country is not really a genre, but a collection of related genres that also have a geographical relationship, principally Texas but also Oklahoma.

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Well, It Did Rain Today (Texas and Red Dirt Country #1)

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This post originally appeared in BattleRedBlog as a FanPost.

I’ve been posting this to the SNOT the last few weeks, but no one has replied. I don’t know if that means no one is interested, or it’s just getting lost. So I decided to post it here, a little more fleshed-out, and see if it is worth continuing with.

The music is taken from my Texas and Red Dirt Country playlist on Play Music. If you have All Access, you can listen to the list, and I will be linking to the track. I will also link YouTube videos for those who don’t have All Access.

My criteria for inclusion in this playlist is the artist must be associated with either Texas Country or Red Dirt Country (a genre that has its origins in Oklahoma but which is now considered part of the Texas Country scene as well), or, the artist must be a prominent singer from Texas and with some ties to Texas music, even if they are more mainstream. I added this so I could make sure to include singers like Ray Price and George Jones.

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This is me

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I saw this on Facebook.  This is an extremely good description of how my bipolar disorder affects me.

Good Morning. If It Is a Good Morning, Which I Doubt

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Dealing with mental illness means being in a daily battle with your own brain.  Up until a few months ago when I found out I have a mood disorder I chalked my normally down moods up to personality.  I considered myself to me melancholy in the tradition of artists and poets of centuries gone by.  Indeed, for me, those early years where I believe my Bipolar Disorder first started coming out (late teenage through early twenties) were my most artistically creative years.  I wrote a fair amount of poetry back then, almost none of it shared with anyone, and most of it now lost.   I believe this is a fairly common misconception; personality and mood are not the same thing.

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The Roller Coaster Continues, Just Not As Bumpy

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I haven’t written in awhile, and, truth be told, there’s not been a whole lot to say.  I am, thankfully, adjusting well to my meds.  I am no longer spending weeks at a time in the grips of depression; when it happens, it resolves quickly.  It is also not usually that severe.  Though some instances, for various reasons, are.

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Hello, I’m Jonathan, And I’m Bipolar – Part II

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When last I wrote, I was just coming out of a period of very severe depression, followed by a hypomanic episode.  My medication really seems to be working now, as I have been free of depression for about two and a half weeks, and free of hypomania for two weeks.  I know this journey is far from over, but it is such a relief to feel like myself again for the first time in a couple of years.

My psychiatrist formally entered my diagnosis in the EMR, and it is Bipolar II Disorder. This comes as no surprise, it is rather what I had been expected given my history, but it is nice to see it, finally.

Welcome

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This blog is called “The Sayings of Wotan.” That title comes from two places. One, my preferred internet alias for the last 20 years has been Wotan (or WotanTX), the German form of the Norse god Odin, from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. Two, one section of the Poetic Edda of Norse mythology is the Hávamál, or Sayings of Har, which are attributed to Odin.

In this blog, as time allows, I will discuss various things of interest to me. These may include politics, music, sports, philosophy, or any number of other things.  It is long past time that I should start being more vocal about things. Now, I just have to have the time to do it.