~~Anjuelle Floyd~~ … stories about women … … making things right with family and friends … … resolving difficulties with intimates and significant others … … by bridging the divide, and mending wounds with their mothers … […]
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship.
“A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her interview
Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins… Read More »
What would you do if the loss of your sight ignited a war between you two best friends?
This is the case for 35-year-old, psychologist, Sahel Ohin, involving her two friends from childhood, Titus Denning and Carl Pierson.
The surgery that could return Sahel’s sight might also kill her.
Sahel’s husband, Titus, a cardiac surgeon, fears the latter.
Sahel’s neurosurgeon, Carl Pierson, believes Sahel’s blindness has rendered her hostage to Titus.
On the first night out since her blindness Sahel meets James Bolton, a former San Francisco stockbroker.
Though never having met they converse as if old friends.
The winter afternoon that Sahel attempted suicide, James received life imprisonment for murder, and his fiancée leapt from the Golden Gate Bridge.
When during dinner Sahel accidentally knocks over her glass of water and wets her gown James escorts her out onto the verandah.
Against the backdrop of Sahel’s husband, Titus, inside the ballroom and receiving an award, James asks, “Do you believe…in life after death?”
Seasons in Purdah shows what happens when best friends become adults, and how, among many things, life is but a series of choices, the consequences of which yield a drama that both weaves and unravels the knots binding us to those we cherish and who love us.
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“Seasons in Purdah,” a novel by Anjuelle Floyd. Read the 1st 28 Chapters
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Should Huma Abedin forgive her husband, US Representative Anthony Weiner?
For further discussion join me for a Twitter Chat, this Thursday, June 16th, 2011 @ 5pm PDT/6pm MT/7pm CDT/8pm EDT.
http://tweetchat.com/room/anjuelledfloyd
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Last Friday, I heard a young woman say, “She [Huma] should abort the child she is carrying by Weiner.”
Should Huma do this I could not condemn her.
I cannot say what a person should are should not do regarding the betrayal a loved one or friend exacts upon him or her.
And yet our ability to move beyond experiences of hurt and emotional injury inflicted by friends, family and even acquaintances whom we hardly know establishes the foundation upon which we will build our healing.
And yet there is the anger.
Anger indicates a transgression of our boundaries, both physical and particularly emotional.
Beneath anger always lies hurt.
The steam of compassion can only rise from the flames of anger.
And what of forgiveness?
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What guides your steps in dealing with betrayal, infidelity, and the injurious actions of others, most particularly of family and friends–those whom you love?
What can you live with regarding your actions towards those who have hurt you?
How do you want to die?
What must you do to achieve your desires for transitioning from this life into what lies beyond?
For further discussion join me for a Twitter Chat, this Thursday, June 16th, 2011 @ 5pm PDT/6pm MT/7pm CDT/8pm EDT.
http://tweetchat.com/room/anjuelledfloyd
Twitter Chat: “Of Death, Mortality and The Steam of Compassion…” Read More »
Should Huma Abedin forgive her husband, US Representative Anthony Weiner?
Last Friday, I heard a young woman state that Huma should abort the child she is carrying Weiner.
Should Huma do this I could not condemn her.
I cannot say what a person should are should not do regarding the betrayal a loved one or friend exacts upon him or her.
And yet our ability to move beyond experiences of hurt and emotional injury inflicted by friends, family and even acquaintances whom we hardly know establishes the foundation upon which we will build our healing.
Of Death, Mortality and The Steam of Compassion… Read More »
What happens when your best friends are two men and you marry one of them?
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This is the case for 35-year-old Sahel Ohin.
As a child Sahel, spent the afternoons of spring and summer making mud cakes. Titus brought the water, Carl the dirt from his mother’s flower garden. All three lived on the same street in Oakland, California. After mixing the dirt and water Sahel poured the mud into tin pie pans her mother had discarded. Titus and Carl would then place the pans filled with mud in the sun to dry.
This was their work.
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The Buddha said, “Life is dukkha.”
Most Americans and English speaking peoples translate this into suffering.
But dukkha, a word that originates from Pali, one form of Sanskrit, means so much more.
It its most essential form dukkha address three aspects of the challenges humans face in our efforts to survive and thrive
The pain and suffering of life.
The inevitability of change demanding adaptation and evolution.
The cause-and-effect, interrelatedness
Of Dukkha, Suffering and Achieving Freedom Through the Boundaries of Relationship… Read More »