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This morning, as I sat in my comfortable chair with Violet purring sweetly, a memory, long forgotten from childhood, returned to be witnessed and held from a perspective far different than the one I had at the time, being a young teenager when it first occurred. It was my parents’ wedding anniversary. As I recall, this was #16 at the time. My mother said to my father, “Arnold, do you love me?” My father got angry and replied sharply, “I told you I loved you 17 years ago. That

Yesterday I felt strangely sorrowful after three different friends shared with me in our Monday morning get-together. Each was in response to my blog post. I had asked if anyone had chosen to create their own manifesto during the break we all took during Easter week. One person said she felt no connection with the exercise, that she was tired of words and was feeling less is more and was being called to work on other things. She said that she was listening to her heart. How c

On several occasions during the course of this decade, I have written about the exact moment when I left my identity as soul behind and started creating and sculpting the persona which I, alone, made because that is who I thought that I needed to be in order to survive. I was over three but less than four years of age. My sister, Mary, is 3 years younger than me so that would have made her somewhere between nine and twelve months old. It was the middle of the night and I w