This was a post in 2009 but I think it may be appropriate to reprint in these times. I don’t often use the word. In fact, I have an aversion to the judgmental quality of it. After all, when it comes to people, isn’t it arrogant to assume that they should perform to my expectations? […]
Family Dissension – Without Answers
June 15, 2014 by 11 Comments
I sometimes bring this letter forward from my archives because there seem to be a lot of people searching for letters to write to their own children. Originally post October 5, 2010. Family dissension is an everyday thing; the kind in which someone or everyone disagrees, argues, and in some strange pattern, agrees to disagree. […]
…on Reaching Toward Family Harmony
August 15, 2011 by Leave a Comment
NOTE. This is one of a series of requested letters that will be posted under “Form Letters” for those of you who would like an idea or a template for a letter of your own. “A family in harmony will prosper in everything” Chinese Proverb …and a family at odds radiates pain in widening circles. […]
Changing Back
April 1, 2011 by 2 Comments
I am my attitude. When I get judgmental or resentful or just plain pissy, I change into a fractured, ungrounded person. Or is it the other way around? I’ve lived through this lots of times. So why does it take me so long to connect my flopping about with stinking thoughts? Or to get myself […]
Pain by Pitiful People
November 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Dear Daughter. You are never too old to need my protection. If I can give it, I do. And I know when I can’t. I can’t save you from the lady behind the car rental desk who is so miserable and small-minded that she automatically hates you for who you are. Her selective deafness and tight lips […]
