Tag: fear
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Protected: Of Mothers, Understanding, and BeComing Present …
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Protected: Of Remembering, Mourning, and Striving to Become a Better Parent…
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Of Arrows, Psyche, and Moments of Empathy, Grace and Redemption…
The outset of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche, shows Eros leaning over the sleeping mortal, Psyche, and fervently prepared to strike Psyche with one of his arrows and create a wound that will command her to fall in love with a beast. Eros’s mother, Aphrodite sent him on this mission out of her…
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Our Greatest Fear, Our Earnest Hope: To Love and Be Loved…
Love strengthens and transforms. It also frightens. Experiencing love, true unadulterated and unconditional love, freely given soothes us in places long hardened over time by insults and wounds inflicted in the flesh and to our character and emotions. Love and acceptance despite and because of who we are, faults, shortcomings, warts and all exhumes not…
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Of Towers, Castles and the Battles Writers Wage…
The Rook, Tower or Castle in the game of chess speaks to boundaries. Towers and Castles of the medieval era served not simply as homes, but also places of protection, that place to which rulers, those of their court, and the soldiers guarding them retreated and from which they waged battle. The Tower provided a…