Thoughts & Feelings, Part I: Disrupted
Thoughts and feelings...what to say, what not to say? As a GenXXer, is there anything to say about the overwhelming and consuming presence of these cognitive monsters that, in my family, pervade every cell of our biology and every neuron of our conscious and spiritual beings? Are words even palatable to describe these two towering giants who have loomed large and heavy within my maternal family especially, generation after generation, and have effected everyone us at every life-point and with every breath? In fact, words aren't palatable, and so we express our thoughts and feelings through art, music, poetry, and dance. We stupefy them with addictions, we evade them in protective seclusion, we exploit them for creative power, and we admonish ourselves and others for their intensity and force of display. As for my thoughts and feelings and their expressions, my maternal family casted me as emotionally dramatic and behaviorally erratic; my paternal family casted me as emotionally v
