Category Archives: Growth
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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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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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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Opposite Sides And Another Challenge
I truly like to hear at least two sides of an issue before making a decision. In my last blog, I wrote about why we have difficulty with admitting that we don’t know certain things. I knew when I finished, that I … Continue reading
Posted in advice, Balance, Challenge, Choice, exercise, grief, Growth, Journal Writing, Life, love, Opposite Sides, pain, Self-Awareness, synchronicity, Uncategorized
Tagged carved in stone, Challenge, change, dog and god, expression, grief, issue, know vs don't know, Knowing, love, Opposite Sides, pain, parameters, second chance, story
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One of Those Days
There are those days, when I don’t wish to write prose. When as soon as I try to compose stately sentences that march cleanly across the page and down between the margins, the pen starts dancing to its own music, … Continue reading
Posted in Growth, Journal Writing, Life, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged control, focused concentration, jive, music, peace of mind, poem, silence silenced, unbound knowledge
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