Tag Archive for: family

The Brokenness of Things

Are things ever perfect? No. In many ways we come to love and, hopefully, forgive the brokenness of things where there are no real answers, only more questions.

A Secret Voice

My book Interbeing contains a section of poems to my younger brother, George, who died in 2019, and now that I myself am in my tenth decade these poems take on a special resonance.

George, ti voglio bene

On the whole, our family interactions would never qualify for a Dr. Phil manual of the successful unit. Even the experts haven’t figured out the intricacies of this interplay. Yet out of this textbook case of wrong moves came two reasonably healthy sons, each carrying his own wounds from childhood in different ways.

Taking a Long Road Home

“Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.” —Søren Kierkegaard Hello friends, Freudians sometimes refer to the interactions of parents and children as the family romance, surely an ironic term given the…