The Conversations That Form Us

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 […]

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,  […]