Honoris causa matris meae~Latin For~ Honoring My Mother Happy Mother’s Day to my Mother, Nona May, Born 1921 – Died 1999. Is it possible to honor my mother today on Mother’s Day, 2020 while continuing to reveal my experiences of being birthed, cherished, emotionally abandoned, protected, abused verbally, emotionally and sometimes physically by a woman […]
Unfolding Narrative
Opus Interiorem– Latin For –Inner Work Inner Work…though it is a deeply personal matter, it is not necessarily a private matter: inner work can be helped along in community. Indeed, doing inner work together is a vital counterpoint to doing it alone. Left to our own devices, we may delude ourselves in ways that others […]
The Origin and Consequence of Soul Erosion
Secreta Secretorum~Latin For~ Secret of Secrets Iterative Consequences Our family lineage has been progressively and compulsively disintegrating in the wake of my grandfather’s actions. Many in our family tree have immersed themselves in drugs and alcohol to numb the pain that resides as a latent malignancy. The cycle of suffering has manifested itself consciously and unconsciously. […]
The Journey Home
Viae Errantia ~ Latin For ~ Wandering Roads Generation of Awakening Wandering roads manifest in a multitude of form; literally and metaphorically. My wanderlust is rooted in understanding the mystery that is ever before me which proliferated my Seeker’s avidity. Paradoxically, I have come to accept that great questions are an introduction to doubt. “Learning […]
Like Waking Up From the Longest Dream
somnium longissimum ~Latin For~ longest dream Generational Dreamers “Once upon a dream, I fancied fairy tales and fantasized the type of life that little girls believe someday might be theirs. I held in my heart that my true love would arrive on a white horse and whisk me away to a happy-ever-after-life in his castle where […]
Inheriting the Wind
Possessio Ventus~ Latin for ~Inheriting the WindProverbs 11:29 Generational Inheritance Welcome to the fourth installment of My Mother’s Story and Mine. I offer you, the reader, an invitation to follow the path on which I have labored in making sense and finding meaning of my maternal family history. This solemn narrative has developed as I […]