family

  • In Me

    “Once you know, you can’t not know”, is a quote I read, it’s the knowing that changes you forever. Knowing is different from hoping, wishing, dreaming or wondering, knowing trumps it all. I know what they wanted the most is… Continue reading

  • Pick Up the Broken Piece.

    What a slow learner I am, how incredibly naïve and blindly stupid…I am surprised that I am just now catching on. How has it taken me this long, almost six years to figure this out? The pain I have gone… Continue reading

  • Cover Your Truth.

    The phrase, “The Elephant in the Room” what does that really mean and how is it used properly? Have we been taught to not speak about things that are there, due to the reaction they bring? What are Elephants in… Continue reading

  • Peace with My Self.

    “Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Johannes Tillich I love that there are two ways to look at… Continue reading

  • The Quiet Room

    I am reading “The Quiet Room” by Lori Schiller and Amanda Bennett. What is so interesting is that her parents don’t want to accept her illness, and deny it by looking repeatedly for ‘normal’ behavior and are more concerned about… Continue reading

  • Annihilate My Truth

    My brother wrote about the word annihilation and I had never looked at what it meant, yet I too have used the word, but now I want to see how it is applied.   Words to me are much more… Continue reading

  • Family is Relating.

    In the past weeks I have had sister relationships with ladies not related to me, yet we related.    And when I tried to relate to those related to me, we failed.   What I failed to focus on were… Continue reading

  • Held On So Tightly…

    I awoke at 4:00 am, with my right hand tightly clenched, my arm sore.   A dream flooded my awareness.   I was at a beach, and saw a young girl pour gasoline into the front seat of my car,… Continue reading

  • Steps towards mine.

    My online conversations with family are so enlightening and disturbing, confusing and clear, and they show me who they are, and how they see me.   What continues to surprise me is that they hold me up to an unattainable… Continue reading

  • Upon His Knee.

    It would be nice if it were all lies, just a made up story, a figment of my imagination, as an email suggests.   ‘you are FEEDING your anger with LIES. Just to carry on the hated/evil.’   The lie… Continue reading