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SHORT STORIES
Metamorphosis Redux
Coming-of-age happens in thousands of ways, but always includes learning a lot metamorphosing everything. To change one’s form and substance is exciting, sometimes overwhelmingly frightening, and very mind-boggling—until it snaps one into a new place.
This is a collection of three stories about children metamorphosing. The first, a ten-year-old boy loses both of his remarkable parents, and takes a train ride unconsciously looking for their replacement. The second is a horror story from a seven-year-old perspective. The third is about a remarkable ten-year-old girl who is cared for and protected, but is also left freely to be herself, who suffers betrayal, fights a human dragon, and puts puberty in its place.
READ AN EXCERPT & WHAT READERS SAY
Secular Homilies & Archpypal Visions
Author: Don Fenn & Ellen Dreibelbis
This collection of essays is written by a psychotherapist who has discovered that psychology is the queen of the sciences—meaning the one that humanly organizes all the others into a seamless matrix of information, with the individual human spirit at the center of all knowledge. No matter what the category of information may be.
And since psychotherapy is most fundamentally about emotion and habits, feeling-wisdom, and its patterns, is at the core of every essay. Reason is employed in its proper function, never to control or otherwise dominate, but instead to facilitate consistency, and its integrity between ideas, feelings, attitudes and behaviors within the ecosystem of the person who feels, thinks, believes and behaves.
Strangely, this perspective changes everything, making wisdom appear quite different than it used to, and in many ways still does. So there is a provocative character to these essays, which constantly make assertions that defy conventional wisdom.
Because the human psyche must organize all of its wisdom into a seamless single system—to be a sane, effective integrated self—essays are about almost everything, since in real life each of us encounters a huge variety of things, and expect ourselves to relate meaningfully to a great many of them.
Topics include the diary of a 25th century human, religion, war, divorce, mental illness as a fraud, love as predation and ambiguity, being older, money, music and truth as fiction, just to mention a few.
As a foundation for a political, social and spiritual philosophy, psychotherapy—defined as helping one person to fulfill their life—is the only adult-place where the individual is king. Where fairness, equality and thoughtfulness are the dominant container, where no human has more than one vote of power, politically, morally, socially or economically.
Black and white images of pastel and oil paintings accompany these essays, painted by a well-known fine artist.
ARTICLES —Numerous articles are published on EzineArticles.com, available through this link.
copyright© 2007–2010 Don Fenn. All rights reserved.
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