…was playing in my Mail Jeep today.
It is a very interesting journey, from being a Catholic, to Atheist to…not sure, not done with the book.
It was very interesting to see her viewpoint of religion and really life itself.
She is about 20 years older than me, for she graduated the year I was born. But she noticed as a child, that the adult didn't like the children, and often times treated them as if they were innately bad. That if the adults were not watching the children would naturally misbehave.
She didn't like the way adults treated the children. Her parents were different, and to them the kids were just other people in the house…and she never even was treated like a girl, but just a person. So, she didn't have gender self esteem issues. In fact her parents named her Howard and the kids called their parents by their given name. They didn't know authority in their home. An interesting way to grow up.
Imagine the hidden ways in which we lower a child…naturally.
She said children are told things long before they have a question about things. What an interesting observation. Imagine if we didn't tell children things, but waited until they asked???
Her mother was teaching her religion…long before she could even understand the dynamics of it. She does however recall feelings of awe and wonder about the Saints and Statues etc.
Life to me is lived mostly from the Authority viewpoint and imagine how much better we would all be IF we took the child's viewpoint instead?
Lots of our religion can't be explained to a child, yet a child can tell you all the wonders it sees as they walk through life.
She has a very unique viewpoint of her life…and herself. Her novels spoke of her internal spiritual struggle that she failed to realize until later…I know the feeling.
Listening to her story has provoked many new things to ponder. I like it when books do that…nothing I love more than to see things from a new angle.
I M Perfect lady 