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The Year of the Boy: December 2010
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Monday, December 27, 2010. This Is Really THE END. It has been one year and five days since I opened this blog. And, yes, I have closed it twice already but this is honest to God the last time I am going to post a closing blog. I am adding one more post because while my son and I continue to experience our growing edges, we have done exactly that…grow (our edges that is). Posted by Mary Elizabeth Barrett. If you can'...
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The Year of the Boy: July 2010
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Ninety-Nine And Forty-Four One Hundredths Percent Pure. I am a bar of Ivory Soap…99 and 44/100% pure. This morning after settling into my newly accepted emptiness in meditation, I heard a voice say, “It’s not emptiness. It’s purity.” What? Wait a minute. We’re talking about me here. Pure? My little girl body felt such force behind my counter-assault to his volcanic rage that, as I spewed back...
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The Year of the Boy: June 2010
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Saturday, June 26, 2010. MEB Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. If you don’t mind, whatever day it is when you read this blog, please wish my son an exciting, challenging, and evolutionary 18th year (it’s his birthday). Thank you! Okay, so here is the latest incantation of my machinations. Yes, that “something” would be my son. I sat down and really thought about this way of living my life. I don’t want to live here an...
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The Year of the Boy: What Color is Your Albatross?
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Monday, August 2, 2010. What Color is Your Albatross? Mine is colorless. My amazing albatross doesn’t need any color because what it does is absorb all the color and light around it and reflect it back out to the world. How cool is that? Its visibility feels like a matter of life and death. Secondly, not only have I, a complete novice at crafting jewelry, designed it (by myself! So, here’s the problem. I have recentl...
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The Year of the Boy: Ninety-Nine And Forty-Four One Hundredths Percent Pure
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Thursday, July 29, 2010. Ninety-Nine And Forty-Four One Hundredths Percent Pure. I am a bar of Ivory Soap…99 and 44/100% pure. This morning after settling into my newly accepted emptiness in meditation, I heard a voice say, “It’s not emptiness. It’s purity.” What? Wait a minute. We’re talking about me here. Pure? My little girl body felt such force behind my counter-assault to his volcanic rage that, as I spewed back...
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The Year of the Boy: December 2009
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Thursday, December 31, 2009. The Eighth and Ninth Wonders of the World. As a child, I thought of my father as the Eighth and Ninth Wonders of the World. Posted by Mary Elizabeth Barrett. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. For My Mommy and Me. And sit with my ankles crossed? I was too fat for that. My ankles never cooperated, and always at the moment I least expected it, my little leg muscles would get so tired from hold...
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The Year of the Boy: I Wanna Know What Love Is
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Wednesday, August 4, 2010. I Wanna Know What Love Is. Since I released Disappointment, my personal Albatross, into the sea, I have enjoyed sailing in my oceanic Self sans over-protection from the elements. More importantly, I realized that a light coating of SPF 70 is all I need to prepare myself to engage a new way of relating to my Self and to the world from this exposed place. And I am surprisingly okay with it.
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The Year of the Boy: January 2010
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Saturday, January 30, 2010. What Do You Do With A General When (S)he Stops Being a General? For me, the Christmas season is not official until I watch “White Christmas;” it always makes me cry. Near the end of the movie, Bing Crosby sings a song “What Do You Do With A General When He Stops Being A General? Okay, I give. I hated it because it was, well, kind of…sort of…true. I willingly attended my own personal War Co...
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The Year of the Boy: I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together
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The Year of the Boy. How i am learning to reconcile the seemingly irreconcilable within. Wednesday, August 11, 2010. I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together. Just to have a laugh or sing a song. Seems we just get started and before you know it, comes the time we have to say, “So Long.” Engage eye contact with audience, tug left earlobe, roll credits…. It’s a wrap (thank you Carol Burnett). He went off knowing (although perhaps not fully understanding) that he was going to be putting himself to the test: ph...
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