You are cordially invited to review the following piece of phonetic/semantic construction/arrangement.
Spillong Prembles.
There are spieling probelms
Leching in the florests,
Speeling mashtakes hiflyng
A mung the sages of
The Chamber pots. Wers -
Deep, deep Dow n in the
Hewmann hole seethes
The pollyvice of spillong we
call 'Languish'.
And so much languages there.
Butterflies are pined and sconed,
Their wines are fladed with biogrosnis
And groanded clown with
Dregs of anti-flychosis
Aargh, watt a whirled we bought
A bout wen we mad a ruler phar
L anguish.
(c) 1998 JLG
ARCHIVE MATERIALS
Deadline Met!!
Here we are, 31st March 2009 and our preliminary website is finally up!!
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MAIN WEBSITE IS NOW WWW.MISSIONMIRACULUS.ORG.UK
There will, in due course, be a site design revamp and the site will be developed to incorporate a good deal more pages, archives and interactive features. PLEASE SEE ABOVE REDIRECTION OF YOUR ATTENTIONS For now, though, we're delighted to have got this far.
Historic Moments
On 1st April a number of people are meeting in Birmingham in relation to a mental health training course some of us did between November 08 and February 09. MissionMiraculous has a particular interest in this group. If anything of interest comes from the encounter we shall get back to you.
We haven't planned for April 1st 2009 to be remembered by 'posterity' as an especially significant turning point in any long term recorded history, though we may have to arrange for someone to sit down in a bowl of custard to get something like a pun entering the equation.
Founder Meeting
Five of us with a possible interest in developing MissionMiraculous met together a few weeks ago to form a mission statement for the company to go forward in due course as it is registered with companies house, probably as a Community Interest Company with a Social Enterprise label. When this is finalised and agreed it will be posted on the website. If the website is delayed for any reason it will be posted on this blog in the interim.
MissionMiraculous will be a company that works more as an umbrella for a range of activities than as a laser for one specific goal. The umbrella will broadly encompass values as articulated in the by-line to Amazing Lives (see above), which statement is the initial wording of the mission statement.
To deliver its mission aims and objectives, MM will be focussing on a wide range of ideological, educational, political, creative and commercial services, events and products designed to further goals of challenging prejudice and developing understanding and improving services in relation to the concepts and experiences of 'mental health and illness'.
MissionMiraculous is not informed by a conventionally 'anti-psychiatry' perspective. It does, however, have fundamental criticisms of the historical and contemporary theoreticaL framework and social-economic status and positioning of psychiatry within the culture of 'mental illness' experience and containment. It also has a remit to address these problems in practice as well as theory with or without the co-operation of psychiatry as an institution, rubric and community.