Category Archives: Individuation
Signature Strokes
In the world of Fine Art, such as painting, one can, if one has the knowledge of such things, know who the painter is without seeing a signature somewhere on the canvas. It has to do with the manner … Continue reading
Posted in Choice, comparisons, Creativity, expression, Fine Art, Individuation, painting, Signature Stroke, writing
Tagged balk, blog, canvas, choices, comparisons, Creativity, cubism, distinguish, expression, fashion designers, Fine Art, focus, Frank Sinatra, happiness, healing, individual, lay down words, Michelangelo, murder, my way, painting, perceptions, Picasso, recognizable, rules, Salvador Dali, schtick, Signature Stroke, subject matter, Van Gogh, worst enemy, writing
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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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About Authenticity
Writer’s Island prompts #12 and #13 “Change For the Better” Was a bit disappointed when I went to see what the prompt might be for today. My last blog was about all the changes I have had to deal with, … Continue reading
Posted in authenticity, Balance, change, Choice, ee cummings, fitting in, Individuation, Journal Writing
Tagged authentic, authenticity, becoming me, belonging, birth certificate, change, choices, Definitions, dig in, doable, ee cummings, fitting in, for the better, inside my skin, justify, niggle, self, suggested attributes, tap dancing on a high wire, teaching and learning, this blog, validity, what is really meant
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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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I Just Don’t Know
One of the greatest, and possibly most profound, advantages of keeping a journal is that it is the one secure place where one can openly admit that one simply doesn’t know. Why is that the hardest thing to do? To just … Continue reading
Posted in Balance, Choice, Individuation, Journal Writing, Knowing, Life, questions, Self-Awareness, Uncategorized
Tagged answers, belonging, fine line, fool, foolish, giving, group, human psyche, independence vs dependence, primary need, private existence, public acceptance, public vs private, questons, tiptoeing
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