To have a mother, to be one, a bond unbreakable, despite all… The relationships in families so close, so often impaired… Human beings doing best as perceived, as learned, discerned… The fabric of family holding fast through strain and stain, […]
Continue reading »Take a Bath in a Tickle
Like a little child embracing the world, delighting in life, lapping up experience, sensations, excitement. Why is it we feel necessity to grow up, to act adult, do we not know at some primeval level that life is not serious, […]
Continue reading »Atavism
atavistic |ˌatəˈvistik| adjective relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral: atavistic fears and instincts. Family traits of the family of man — the ancient need to rely on props, on substitutes, rather than on He who […]
Continue reading »Who Would Hold to Fear?
We give up fear and indecision, knowing that if we are sincere, our Higher Power will give us the knowledge of our best course in life, along with the willingness and ability to follow that course, even when it seems […]
Continue reading »The Strongest Powerlessness
(Phrase from Miranda O’D) Strength in having no power, in surrender, in giving up. Powerless but having strength beyond my understanding, impotent yet fertile, vulnerable and omnipotent. A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma — but a gift, […]
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