Category Archives: Family
Cocoons and Comfort Zones
I think the issue with the “authentic self” and finding it is that life teaches us how to lose it at a very young age, to shy away from ourselves and run toward standards and expectations. __Farah Lawal … Continue reading
Posted in authenticity, Blanket, Butterfly, Cocoon, comfort zone, curiosity, Family, Growth, Individuation, socialization process, writing
Tagged authenticity, bump noses, Butterfly, chrysalis, Cocoon, comfort zone, curiosity, expectations, explore, flit and flutter, glass wall, jammies, natural, neck of the woods, organic, reasons why, standards, statement of fact, struck by lightening, willing to wager
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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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Making Little Bird Memories
This Little Bird By John D Loudermilk There’s a little bird that somebody sends Down to the earth to live on the wind Born on the wind and she sleeps on the wind This little bird that somebody sends She’s … Continue reading
Posted in Connections, Family, hugs, Memory, music, Thanksgiving, This Little Bird, turkey
Tagged get-together, guests, hugs, John D. Loudermilk, memories, music, niece's daughter, princess, song, Thanksgiving, This Little Bird, turkey
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Wild Thing III
A Definition and an Example: First things first. What exactly do I mean by the term Wild Thing? I do not mean some sort of slavering monster bent on total annihilation of you, me, or anyone else. I am … Continue reading
Posted in conformity, Creativity, Definitions, expression, Family, Growth, Inner Voices, Life, Poetry, Psycho Within, socialization process, Walt Whitman, wild thing
Tagged child, defintion, desire to create, example, inner howl, nipping at heels, parent, personal, Poetry, poets, Psycho Within, silent learning, Song of Myself, to express, urge, Walt Whitman, wild thing
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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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Distillation
The day before yesterday, my siblings and I hosted a party to celebrate my Mother’s ninetieth birthday. We rented the back room of a local restaurant and invited some family and friends. About 60 people showed up to share in … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, distillation, Family, Journal Writing, Life, Memory, Moonshine, music, Photograph, Record, Uncategorized
Tagged distillation, Family, festivities, Friends, harmonica, memories, money tree, moonshine still, ninetieth birthday, photographs, process, separate components
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