Photo by Vlad Bagacian on Pexels.com Erek sunk into the numbness, wrapping himself in a blanket of tepid dull gray. The still, rouged face, hair professionally coiffed, mocked him in his shame. Distantly noting the muffled awkward shuffles of feet on thin berber carpet behind him, he turned away from the casket before the falling …
Journal: Parental Voids
Photo by Andreas Wohlfahrt on Pexels.com I’ve been sitting here thinking about maternal and paternal archetypes. Without getting too bogged down in Jungian technicalities, it seems to me that we do have a place in our psyches, whether innate or culturally contrived, which craves a manifestation of a Mother Figure and a Father Figure. These …
Journal: Putting Mother to Rest
Photo by Giftpundits.com on Pexels.com (Saturday, March 16, 2019, 10:15 pm) I just went out with an old friend of mine from high school. She was my only female friend in high school and she’s a rather atypical female. The last time I talked to her it was just before I fled to Cambodia. I …
