Grandfather Guilt
is obviously true.
Good old Grace
stands against the truth.
Good old Grace knows
more about the truth
than truth itself can know.
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Grandfather Guilt
Posted in -all posts-, healing, tagged depression, dysfunctional thoughts, Faith, forgiveness, grace, guilt, healing, help, inspirational, Life, mental illness, motivational, poetry, religion, religious poetry, self-forgiveness, self-help, spirituality, truth on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inner Parent
Posted in -all posts-, healing, tagged baby, depression, inner parent, inspirational, intimacy, Love, mental illness, parents, psychotherapy, recovery, self-actualization, self-sufficiency, therapy on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Painting by Stephen B. Whately
My unconscious is giving me clues. Last night, I dreamed a woman was massaging my back, telling me how much I hurt, and rubbing away my pain. I felt a tremendous calm that I hadn’t felt since…well, since being held as a baby. I think the woman in [...]
Rossetti: Remember
Posted in -all posts-, healing, tagged poetry, spirituality, death, loss, spirit, spiritual, Thoughts, poets, memory, poems, Christina Rossetti, Rossetti, parting on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann’d:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then [...]
Silence, Mother of Speech
Posted in -all posts-, healing, tagged abuse, abuse survivors, abuse victim, abuse victims, bad memories, child, childhood, children, comfort, coping, coping with abuse, coping with depression, depression, fear, grief, introversion, learning, loss, Love, meditating, memory, mother, mothers, Music, my true self, peace of mind, PTSD, rape victim, rape victims, relaxation, sexual abuse, silence, singers, speech, therapy, trauma, true self, victim, victims, voice, who I am, writers on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Silence offers what everyone else has denied you. Silence doesn’t mind crying or screaming or misbehaving or being a child. When silence looks at you, she does so with mourning: her own mourning mixed with your mourning. When silence looks at you, her eyes are full of the tears of two women [...]
First Empathy
Posted in -all posts-, healing, tagged adolescence, Baptism, Empathy, first love, Friends, friendship, healing, Love, molestation, poetry, purity, rebirth, relationships, religion, renewal, romance, sexual abuse, voice on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These irises
said blue and meant green:
two baptismal pools undressing
the girl as all eyes do, this time
not with violation, but
with recognition. Exposing
her smile. Exposing
her tongue. Exposing
her throat. Exposing
her vocal cords. Touching
like water. Washing
away all cobwebs, fingerprints,
saliva trails, and shame. Leaving
only rebirth and immaculate
reconception.
When hard holy water hit
her infant forehead, [...]
