[Part of our ongoing exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay explores Chapter Twelve’s inquiry into the role of love — and its lack — in American culture. The book is available here.] Regarding the subtitle’s question, the answer is, well, just about everything. Over the course ofContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
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Healing America’s Narratives: The Race for Violence — 2023
Photo © by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay looks at some current events in the context of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available] The context of each of these “Healing America’s Narratives” posts is the collective national Shadow of the United States, as explored in detail in the book by that name. Briefly,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Race for Violence — 2023”
Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Collective Healing
[Part of a series, this essay continues our turn toward the collective in our ongoing exploration of Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In the previous essay, we introduced M. Scott Peck’s stages of community-making: pseudocommunity, chaos, emptiness, and community. Here, as we continue our turn toward the collective, we’llContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Collective Healing”
Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Community
Photo © by Rita Vicari on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay turns toward the collective as we continue our exploration of Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] As we continue to explore America’s narratives and collective Shadow, it’s essential to remember and pay attention to the interrelationships among individuals, groups,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Community”
Healing America’s Narratives: The Power & Paradox of Silence
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, specifically in the context of what may serve the healing process moving forward. The book is available.] In “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” Audre Lorde wrote that “I was going to die, if notContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Power & Paradox of Silence”
Healing America’s Narratives: Background and Foreground, Context and Content
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Chapter Eleven (So, Now What?”) of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In the context of the history¹ of the United States, of the nation’s collective national Shadow and state of affairs in the third decade of the twenty-first century, andContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Background and Foreground, Context and Content”
Healing America’s Narratives: How Am I in Relationship With Everything in My Life?
[Part of a series, this essay explores a subheading from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In an earlier essay, we considered six questions and statements that are important for the healing process. Here they are again, with the first five linked to a brief overview: We’reContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: How Am I in Relationship With Everything in My Life?”
Healing America’s Narratives: I Am Going To Die
Photo ©by Philippa Rose-Tite on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores a subheading from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available. We’re returning to Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives after our departures in the previous two posts — the inevitability of the current state of the country and the apparent belief, sharedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: I Am Going To Die”
Healing America’s Narratives: Money, Elections, Democrats, Republicans, & Money
Photo © by Maria Thalassinou on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores aspects of the idiocy that characterize America’s two-party approach to political campaigns. Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available. Note: I am an unaffiliated voter — I am a member of neither the Republican nor the Democratic party. I usedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Money, Elections, Democrats, Republicans, & Money”
Healing America’s Narratives: The Inevitability of the Current Mood of the United States
Photo © by tom coe on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores the inevitability that surfaced amid the research for and writing of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Now available. If we begin with Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and work our way forward through each day since then, especially those days not includedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Inevitability of the Current Mood of the United States”
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