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Depression.
de·pres·sion
Noun: Severe despondency and dejection, accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy.

I’ve dealt with depression for most of my life. I’ve often considered writing about it, but always refrained for a number of reasons – embarrassment, shame and privacy. I’m over that now. I’ve come to understand depression in a new way. It doesn’t just affect me (and boy does it), but it causes immense pain to millions. I’ve come to recognize depression in others whether they’ve explicitly told me or not. I’m not ashamed of it anymore.

My friend Casey Mullins, wrote about it almost two years ago – Giving Depression a Voice. My friend Despi told me about the post and I immediately read it, a lot. I was so thankful someone I knew was writing about it. I thought it was so courageous. I could never do such a thing. Well a lot’s changed.

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My previous two posts in this series, May I present to you, have been about people I admire. Like people that live in the world of robots and airports. It goes without saying, that this is a series near and dear to my heart. And with my heart, and laptop, I am slowly writing my third post. A new entry devoted to the extraordinary Casey Mullins. An unlikely friend, collaborator, and unbeknownst to her, a bit of an inspiration.

One of Casey's pics - we both like reflections

I’m part of an incredibly thoughtful celebration of Casey and her family and soon to be bigger family – Mozzi, due just in time for the month of May. How fitting (vroom vroom). Casey’s friend Emily Elling (DesignHer Momma) organized a 15-week celebration of the Mullins family. I’m honored to fill in a day of that with this post. It’s straight from the heart, yo.

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I just got back from Japan where I tried some really weird foods. Some were delicious. Some were not. Either way, I’m into food. I may not blog often, but when I do, I often highlight food. This will be the third time. Including one referencing Sandra Lee. Casey Mullins and I recently wrote about food in our collaborative project, you see it differently than me. So, those are my food creds.

Pretty Singaporean Sandwiches

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There’s a new project in town: youseeitdifferentlythan.me

It’s a collaboration with Casey Mullins – who’s a photographer, writer, Moosh in Indy, pretty funny human, friend, mother and lots more.

you see it differently that DOT me

We’re in cahoots on this new project that combines the written word and photography. We met for lunch one day and had it all figured out before I had eaten my 3rd wedge of quesadilla.

I’m lucky. Casey get thousands of web hits a day. I celebrate when I get double digits. I’m glad she agreed to collaborate on this. She also wrote about this project, here. Notice all the comments? Yep.

Our project is a simple concept.

We take turns picking one of our photographs from Flickr. We both write about the image, without consulting the other. The post is then published as one – two sides of the story, one pic. Pretty cool, huh?

We both take it very seriously. We both believe in it. It’s still in it’s infancy. We’re still figuring it out. And we both think you’ll enjoy it.

Would we lie to you?

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