Baker-Miller Pink

In 1979 in Seattle, at a naval prison facility, Sargeants Baker and Miller painted a holding cell pink. Some call it bubble gum pink, but I think it's more of a peachy pink, and in fact maybe matches Benjamin Moore paints #1328. Sargeants Baker and Miller had read that color can change moods, and in fact the color pink seemed to calm people who were violent. When they put their violent prisoners in there, they quieted right down.

Baker and Miller sent their results out to psychologists, and they sent the idea to prisons for further testing. Thus Baker/Miller Pink was born, and in the news lately we see a Texas prison whose head officer swears by it.

Some results say it works for half an hour or so, and then the calming effect goes away.

What the heck. On the off-chance that it might help my sister stay calm, we have painted several rooms in her home this color.

It helps. Sometimes. We think. Or it could be the drugs.

But that is why my website has a pink background. If it calms you, this is terrific. Tune in often.

Just how many people with mental disabilities ARE there?

Thirty years ago we talked with census people and they seemed to think that the developmentally disabled population was about 3% of the general population.

Now the census people say that it looks more like 1.58%!  Are we doing something right in safer childbirth practices?  Whatever it is, this is good news to everyone.

My people at Hyperion got it a little wrong and have said in their catalog that 3 out of every 10  Americans has a mental disability.  I have tried to correct them, and hope it won't come out that way in the catalog, but on the other hand, the more I think about it, maybe 3 out of every 10 Americans BEHAVE as if they're mentally disabled, especially perhaps in the halls of political power in Washington, so you don't know what statistics to use.

Ah well.....

Wow! I'm a Blogger now.

Here I am looking like some strange old woman trying to look like angel.  The reason they have you look up is because it makes the wrinkles a bit less.

More later. This is a test run. I am hoping I can erase stuff at any time.