Category Archives: boundaries
Boundaries
The image above is a kaleidoscope made from a photograph. The photo was one shared on Facebook by Marilyn B. I was fascinated by the colors. This is the original photograph. I have spent a part of each day, for … Continue reading
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Tagged boundaries, Creativity, feeling, geographical, harm, lines, personal, political, thinking
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New Responsibilities, New Freedoms
Writer’s Island prompt #16 Brand New Day Have a friend who is a receptionist for a well-known Law office. As such, she is the first impression new clients meet when they arrive. She told me of an experience she had … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, change, Choice, Friends, Mr. Obama, New Freedoms, New Responsibilities, preconceived notions
Tagged actions and choices, age, age 65, brand new day, clutching purses, color, commit, concrete proof, Danish descent, fact and experience, finding common ground, gender, gift ourselves, hooking into opposite, Mr. Obama, older white woman, preconceived notions, profound conversation, reality, receptionist, silent boundaries, threshold
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In The Way of the Fox
The fox, the Wild Thing, Masks, the socialization process blanket, and how it all fits together. Continue reading
Posted in Blanket, boundaries, Choice, creature, Definitions, Family, Fox, Friends, Journal Writing, Logic, Masks, socialization process, Society, wild thing
Tagged actions and choices, avatars, backtracking, Definitions, example, family as basic social unit, footprints, Fox, Friends, group, history, hounding pursuers, inadequate, inappropriate, individual, influence, lacking in logic, Masks, masquerade ball, membership, peer group, secret society, skewed view, socialization process blanket, target, unbalanced, wild thing
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Personal Take Cont. (WT, as well)
I came home from the hospital to a totally different environment than the one I had left beneath the rear wheel of my father’s big black Pontiac. My world had been altered and, when I looked in the mirror, … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, boundaries, change, child, Definitions, experience, Family, Life, pain, Personal Story, Self-Awareness, wild thing
Tagged altered, beliefs, bogey man, change, comfort zone, different, don't fit in, embraced, Family, four year old, garbled, home, hospital, interpretations, lonely, misfit, not belonging, outside view, resistance, skewed, sniff, survival, uncomfortable in own skin, what's to be gained, worldview
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Wild Thing II
The Socialization Process Blanket. The day before yesterday, as I was finishing my blog, I realized that I would have to come back and add more in the way of explanation. Thus the title and subtitle of this present … Continue reading
Posted in Blanket, boundaries, Family, Growth, Individuation, questions, rules, socialization process, Society, wild thing
Tagged Blanket, boundaries, circumstances, complex, complicated, dangerous world, grow and develop, hot and humid, individual, parents, perspective, questions to consider, rules, skin, socialization process, Society, tangled, teachers, underbelly, warm and cozy
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Wild Thing
Writer’s Island Journals Prompt #7 Describe the future In the course of growing up, each of us goes through what is called the Socialization process. We learn, are taught to be good useful members of the group. Our teachers are … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, Choice, conformity, Creativity, Growth, Individuation, socialization process, wild thing
Tagged behavior/s, belonging, civilized, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, concepts, deny, existence, group, individual, inner wilderness, membership, persuasive reason, socialization process, wild thing, worldview
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Arbitrarily Yours
I have spent over a month here, encouraging any and all to participate in keeping a journal. I have tried my best to reveal many of the most basic advantages in doing such a thing, often using my own experience … Continue reading
Posted in boundaries, Censors, Journal Writing, Knowing, learning process, marking territory, rules, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged boundaries, chaos, comfort, disorder, excuses, human nature, journal vs blog, justifications, marking territory, personal space, private vs public, rationalizations, rules, wild creature
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