DECEMBER 1, 2023 ON MY CORNER MEET YOUR VENDOR GROUNDCOVER NEWS 3 From the desk of Panda: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and how I deal with it Shelley DeNeve,vendor No. 22 In one sentence, who are you? Shelley Koch Mann DeNeve. Free spirit! Where do you usually sell Groundcover News? Churches: Trinity Lutheran, Zion Lutheran, St. Aiden’s Northside Presbyterian, Church of the Good Shepherd. When did you start selling Groundcover? September 2010. I’m vendor No. 22! What words do you live by? Live, love and laugh. Rollerskate through life. What’s the worst/best thing about selling Groundcover News? Worst: not knowing how much you’ll make. Best: getting someone to buy Groundcover. What is something about you someone on the street wouldn't know? That I’m a “townie.” What would be the first thing you’d do if you won the lottery? Buy a new car. Then drive to places to pay off debts in cash. If you had to eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be? Spaghetti. What was your first job? A&W car hop. What's a small thing that makes your day better? Things going as planned. What is your pet peeve? People who lie. If you could do anything for a day, what would it be? Go to Mall of America or Shipshewana and have enough money to spend. What change would you like to see in Washtenaw County? More affordable housing — housing for people who are hard to house. Glen Page is a DIY guy GLEN PAGE Groundcover vendor No. 407 I don’t know about anyone else, but I have totally turned into a complete do-it-yourself guy on every level, at every turn and twist. I have always had fun with arts and crafts. My clothes, my food and my vehicle will reflect the same trademarks, as will everything I own, pretty much. Sometimes it’s about comfort and function when it comes to how I dress myself or redesign something. So if I ever make it to celebrity status and walk the red carpet, when they ask, ”Who are you wearing?” I’d be forced to say, “Glen.” You dig? Individuality and self-expression, is really it's all about me. I might look a little younger than my age, I don’t know. I was born in ‘66, and I grew up a TV baby so I’ve got a lot of different kinds of collages in my head to reflect on or to pull from. The thing is, it continues to grow with each thing I see that sparks my interest and strikes me the right way. I’ve got to feel it or otherwise it ain’t happening. At the end of the day, the journey always makes things a little more interesting for me to vibe to. A lot of what you will see me doing is strictly for convenience, comfort and function. These days I’ve been focused on hands-free ways of traveling. That seems to be working out pretty well but I think that maybe I have blurred the fashion lines a little. It's difficult to explain but you can best believe that I'm looking out for new toys to play with. I have prototypes I haven’t even started yet. The response I get from people on the streets is my reward for the most part, that and knowing that I can do it again. It’s another way for me to express myself — all good, clean fun! Be warned, the minute I see folks biting my style, I’m going to infest the area with a lot more to chew on. I’ve always had a small bunch of people who notice what I do and like it enough to try it for themselves — little trend-setting ideas more or less, the right place at the right time. So there it is: when you see Glen Page, vendor No. 407, if you’ve got an idea you think might be worth testing out, run it by me and I will see how I can work some magic. It all starts with an idea, a thought — write it down or just come kick with me we can give it a go. All you have to do is paint the picture with me. When you’re trying to rock a concert, crowd participation is everything, you dig? I do! So all suggestions are welcome! But try to have something explainable or understandable. Genius is usually very simple, very basic, in other words, easy to explain. This one disorder affects millions in the North. I used to get into a deep depression because of the lack of sunlight. Sun lamps are very intense beams of artificial full-spectrum light that positively affect the mood of a person. But such lamps can cost a lot of money. My alternative is a five-finger death punch to SAD using vitamins: • The first is magnesium which helps with muscles and tissues by opening up blood vessels. • The next is vitamin D3 which I call liquid sunlight. • The third is B complex: this one helps to uplift emotions in a positive light. • The fourth is vitamin C: an antioxidant known helping for emotional balance. • The last one is vitamin E: I take only 200 milligrams per day. This keeps me strong in the darkest part of the winter. Emotional health is extremely important to me, not just because of the fact I suffer from SAD but because of my disability of fetal alcohol syndrome (FASD) — which was totally CINDY GERE Groundcover vendor No. 279 killing off tribal nations (and all land will go back to Big Brother). Psychiatry has also contributed imposed upon me as a result of governmental policies from the 1920s. Before that time, in the Native culture, women did not drink; it was utterly shamed and called taboo. You never engaged in those things. Native people lack two enzymes (ADH and ALDH) that allow us to process alcohol. Government policies allowed for people from outside to bring in gas stations or other businesses, and they allowed them to sell alcohol. My grandmother didn’t drink; but by my mother’s generation, she did. Once that barrier was broken, all bets were lost in every Native nation. The policies are in fact in a negative way to Native people’s self-esteem. Changes in the way the field labels people with mental illness have gone from very clear to now diluted. This keeps people confused — but confusion is good for a multi-billion dollar industry: the more drugs the more money. My own experience was having a mental health worker try and give me lithium for FASD. I took the scrip and then tossed it. Hardcore drugs for mild issues are not for me — ever. I just choose a different path with vitamins that for me keep my issues low. The change in what ADD is called is very disorienting for me; to me, this is covert psychology and shows that people don’t care about others. For me, not to be involved with the power of freedom in the mental health field matters. Without the freedom to choose we go right back to the controlled asylums.
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