As young children we are replete with impressions, needs and affective responses, ( feeling states). We play in the ambiance of literal and non-literal descriptors as we find words to distinguish these images and experiences. We relay on our short history of experience and the interpretations that proximate adults and children offer to us, through […]
Month: July 2011
Conversing With Our Hidden Selves
In the previous post I offered a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is a a supplication, inviting us to gather up the parts of us that have been disinherited. The words are strong, unapologetic. The timing, the rhythm , the repetition, soothing us into ease. Her language evokes a state. It builds a place, […]