It’s a common phenomena. The matriarch or the patriarch of a family passes and the family unravels. I knew a mother who died, leaving her husband and four sons behind. The men never realized she was what held them together and helped them relate to each other. When she left the picture each man […]
Speaking of deal breakers in relationship, my husband always says that you can’t turn blood on blood. To me, old friends are like blood.
I wrote this in 2009 for Pluto in Capricorn. Eight years have passed. What do you think? I know a family that was strong at one time. This family stood for something, but today there’s little left of it. It’s been almost completely decimated. You see this sometimes when the patriarch or the matriarch dies
“Well I feel the same way about you,” I said to a pal. “Nobody seems to know who you are. Your family for example. Why don’t they know you? I mean, they do know you but the things they know are not the important things. They don’t know any of the things that count.”
Speaking of families where one or more members are invisible, projected upon, or forced to carry the shadow for the group, I am trying to improve my level of understanding and acceptance of this. As common as it is, it’s a foreign culture to me. My family is overt. Everyone knows who everyone is because
My son is a Taurus, he’s seven years old. Screen name, Vidroid, he was watching TV before school, eating yogurt. “You have writing on your head,” I said. The way the lines were drawn on he looked like Frankenstein. “You probably ought to get that off before school.” “No. People love me like this,” he
