Add Node Content Before A view? What's the best approach at adding a node above a view. Right now i'm using the views html (before) to add 3 links to pdf's and some text.

I'm not interested in using panels; primarily, because the content has to appear below the view header. 

Would it be best to add each file as nodes and join the view with a relationship?
Change the page view to a block view and add the block to the nodes in the content region.