as someone with estrangement and distance passed from generation to generation, this really spoke to me - thank you for unearthing this cycle and sharing it with the universe. there are so many things unsaid, so many emotional barriers to navigate when dealing with family, the social construct of what family "should" be can make it difficult to accept anything other than what we're socially conditioned to believe family is. I have been leaning more into the concept of "chosen family" these days, without thinking that it's somehow lesser than a DNA-driven family tree.
How very resonant and timely. Beautifully penned, and so much I feel, is this representative of something so rampant in our shared social infrastructure.
I take this entry in even as I struggle with communication with my own daughter. The visceral push from within to initiate, and the hope that we can begin to knit together some manner of bridge to commence a healing. To open to the sea of who we are to each other in present time, regardless what has or hasn’t come before.
So…thank you for being the unwitting catalyst to what I hope to be a fresh chapter to the book of familial love and care.
as someone with estrangement and distance passed from generation to generation, this really spoke to me - thank you for unearthing this cycle and sharing it with the universe. there are so many things unsaid, so many emotional barriers to navigate when dealing with family, the social construct of what family "should" be can make it difficult to accept anything other than what we're socially conditioned to believe family is. I have been leaning more into the concept of "chosen family" these days, without thinking that it's somehow lesser than a DNA-driven family tree.
How very resonant and timely. Beautifully penned, and so much I feel, is this representative of something so rampant in our shared social infrastructure.
I take this entry in even as I struggle with communication with my own daughter. The visceral push from within to initiate, and the hope that we can begin to knit together some manner of bridge to commence a healing. To open to the sea of who we are to each other in present time, regardless what has or hasn’t come before.
So…thank you for being the unwitting catalyst to what I hope to be a fresh chapter to the book of familial love and care.
Sincerely,
Nathan