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Desire, Distraction and Dialectic
Desire, Distraction and Dialectic I have a woman friend whose mother hated her in the womb. Surely an exaggeration! — you may protest. Well, I met the lady only once, but she was the coldest being I ever encountered who … Continue reading →
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Tagged "created equal", 5th Commandment, a mother's instinct, a mother's love, aim of history, aiming at purity, being hated, contradictions as opportunity, contradictions in history, coping with history, end of history delusions, enmity distracts from one's story, fatal flaw, female coldness, foundational relationship, founding contradictions, French Revolution, gaslighting, holier-than-thou, honoring parents, human imperfection, human traffickers, knitting women, Les Tricoteuses, living in history, method of denunciation, method of dialectic, narcissistic mother, object of hatred, personal history, playing the cards you're dealt, politically sexy, prenatal struggle, psychological abuse, recovery from gaslighting, recovery from longterm abuse, religious obligation, search for purity, self-trust, slave system, societal denial, strategies of hatred, The American DNA, the Guillotine, unease of the founders, unmaternal feelings, unmaternal instincts, unvalidated experience, USA as motherland, woman friend
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Getting Airier
Getting Airier A funny thing happened while I was riding California, the horse that’s smarter than I am. I’d been telling my trainer the various things I’d managed to get done while the pandemic had placed us all under house … Continue reading →
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Tagged 5th Commandment, Achilles and the tortoise, antinomian, changing the past, classical ethics, closure, commuting marriage, courtship days, cultural fad, defying authority, devoted daughter, divorce, epistolary marriage, ex-husband, favorable memories, filial piety, foundational virtue, honoring parents, horse sense, horse therapy, house arrest, inner shift, karmic burden, liking your mother, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, marriage breakup, marriage negotiations, meditation, mother love, parent/child relations, parental standing, Proverbs 3, seasons of the heart, staff club luncheons, tired memory, traditional values, unconscious influence, womanly virtues, young rebels, Zeno's paradox
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