There are so many ways we try to stay solid ― we eat, we make love, we dance, we fight, we remind ourselves of our bodies' substance, feeling it in the enveloping embrace of someone we love, so we can feel permanent, so we can avoid the truth of our ephemeral existence, the tiny blip we are.
Kacey Musgraves' Pageant Material, Chris Stapleton's Traveler, Lindi Ortega's Faded Gloryville, Kip Moore's Wild Ones, Alan Jackson's Angels and Alcohol and Jason Isbell's Something More Than Free have all been gems of the genre – providing substance, feeling, authentic instrumentation and indeed songs written without the help of committees to the country landscape.
White at this time, like other gay artists before him, treasured the baroque aesthetic for its moral ambivalence, for making "little distinction between ornament and substance" – feelings hidden in digressions, in the expressive uncurling of a metaphor.
Mental health problems are important influences, as well as alcohol and substance misuse, feeling desperate, helpless or without hope".
Then, at age 16, came that moment that people with addiction so frequently describe: that experience of using a substance and feeling like they had never before, a feeling that seemed to demand repeating, and repeating, and repeating.
But here we have no type but a collection of human beings, having substance and feeling, in one of those situations with which Edith Wharton proved it is not necessary to have melodrama or murder to awake sensibility and make tragedy visible.
Why certain people act in the very specific ways is still fairly unclear, but chances are it has a lot to do with how they're already feeling before substances are ingested.
"They left people feeling hungry for substance," Mr. Gillespie said.
Ms Sturgess applied some of the substance to her wrist before feeling unwell.
That's when I seem most likely to fall into depression or anxiety, or substance abuse, or just generally feeling crappy and not taking care of myself.
When there appears to be more substance to what we're feeling, we can also sense that something deeper needs our attention -- that possibly our emotions are alerting us to some change we need to make or a boundary that we need to set.
