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A Tiger Named Pain
Writer’s Island Prompt #10 “MOST AMAZING EXPERIENCE” Pain is the shell that encloses your understanding. __Kahlil Gibran Thirty-plus years ago, I gave birth to my fourth and last child. She was beautiful and healthy, but I seemed to be in almost … Continue reading
Posted in A Tiger Named Pain, Biography, captivity, guidance, guru, Inner Voices, pain, Personal Story, questions, story, teach, wild thing
Tagged boulder, Carl Gustav Jung, college, exhaustion, fear, guided imagery, guru, imagination, imaging, inner space, Kahlil Gibran, lessons, pain, questions, rabbi riddles, refuel, relax, Rheumatoid Arthritis, secret place, teaching, Tiger, tomes, warm bath, wild flowers
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Map of Awareness
In a recent blog, I used the phrase map of awareness, and its been circling around inside my head ever since. I’m not aware of having ever used the phrase before, so it intrigues me that it sort of … Continue reading
Posted in change, child, Creativity, learning process, Map of Awareness, Personal Story, questions, Record, Steps In Learning, story, Subjectivity, wild thing
Tagged 2nd step in learning process, birth of Wild Thing, change, Creativity, desperate, forming personality, imagination, injured brain, journal pages, know vs aware, Map of Awareness, mile-markers, notebook, Record, sensory input, terms
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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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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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