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Making Sense of Nonsense
This summer I had the good fortune to attend a session of the New York Center for Jungian Studies’ elegant annual production, Jung on the Hudson. The subject of my seminar was Sense and Nonsense, a subject that has … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, Meaning, Writing
Tagged childhood, Jung on the Hudson, Mrs. Pigledy wiggle, nonsesne, reality, sense
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Crazy Wisdom
I was an odd awkward child, an army brat dropped into new schools as regularly as other kids get new shoes or longer jeans. To defend myself, I made a virtue out of abnormality. I shaped my difference into a … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Consciousness, Film, Heroine/Hero's Journey, Herstory, Politics, Women
Tagged abnormal, childhood, community, Crazywise, Dr. Gabor Mate, feminine divine, herstory, Mobius strip, normal, psyche, the personal is political, wisdom, women, Women's Movement, Womens circles
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Mud
If you’ve ever visited my website, you know I have an affinity for mud – primal ooze, earth mixed with water, prima materia, the basic stuff from which we spring. So I could hardly pass up a movie called Mud! … Continue reading
Posted in Archetypes, Consciousness, Film, Heroine/Hero's Journey, Myth
Tagged actor, archetype, childhood, coming of age, director, Ellis, enlightenment, film, golem, innocence, Jeff Nichols, lies, Matthew McConaughey, movie, mud, Neckbone, puer aeternus, review, truth
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Here’s Looking At You, Kid
I first saw “Casablanca” in tiny dive in Georgetown in the 1960’s. Forerunner to today’s “Movie Taverns,” it was a little hole in the wall that served popcorn and beer at café tables in a small black-painted room with a … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Prompt, Film, Gratitude, Memoir
Tagged 6 degrees of separation, As Time goes by, Bill Clinton, Bogart, Casablanca, childhood, fathers, Garbo, Henry G. Phillips, History, movies
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Victoria Woodhull: One Who Rose Up
This weekend the Texas Storyteller’s Association held its annual festival in Denton. One of the featured teller’s, Willy Clafin prepared a stellar historical presentation. The operative word here is prepared. The man knows his stuff- backwards, forwards, inside out to the … Continue reading
New Year’s Toast to Reality
This morning my husband sent me a book review by Edward Marriot of Alan Bennett’s novel The Uncommon Reader in which Her Royal Majesty, the queen of England, accidentally stumbles upon the pleasures of reading. It becomes an obsession with … Continue reading
