other<\/em>
\nanonymous.) (If you are using a Mac and Internet Explorer for Macs, my
\nComments on LJ show up as vertical columns of words. It displays
\nnormally in other browsers. If you use a Mac, use Safari or Foxfire to
\nread the Comments.) That is the first "conversation" that we’ve had in
\n10 years and it is so remarkably similar to the dialogue that took
\nplace then. It’s a different kind of nostalgia. Not the kind that makes
\nyou wipe a tear from your eye in fond memory. It’s more like
\nremembering when you burnt your hand on the stove. I’ve wondered since
\nI froze the Comments on the Listening post if she has wiped the froth
\nfrom her lips yet. I hear they have shots for that condition but it’s
\nprobably too late for shots.<\/p>\nOkay, enough wise guy remarks at her expense. I will have more to
\nsay on the human condition of Estrangement as the year progresses as I
\nhave for the last five years. I have some new ideas in mind on how to
\nportray aspects of this condition. <\/p>\n
Estrangements, the blog and the website, is primarily about
\nestrangements in families between blood relatives. It is less about the
\nestrangements between former lovers, even though that is such a common
\nform of estrangement. What brought me to designing and maintaining the
\nwebsite, Estrangements.com, were the estrangements between myself and
\nblood relatives and then, secondarily or thirdly, the other
\nestrangements in my life. The most painful estrangement has been the
\none with my daughter but once that happened, I had to take a look at
\nestrangement throughout my own life and that of others. It is a
\ncondition that, like the fire that burns down the neighbor’s house, I
\nalways expected to happen to someone else, like Roseanne and Demi Moore
\nand the homeless person on the street, and not to me.<\/p>\n
Estrangements, the website, has the lists of links of celebrities
\nand others who have experienced estrangement, the links on information
\nabout psychological conditions involved in some who become estranged,
\nlinks to support and discussion groups, links to articles, lists of
\nbooks and movies, and the blog from 2001 to 2005. Estrangements, the
\nweblog, has my own story of estrangements and my writings on various
\nissues that relate to estrangement. My own story is just that, my own
\nstory, Others who were in my family have their own stories too and
\ntheir stories would differ from mine. Their stories are their stories.
\nI am capable of telling my own story of my own experience. I am not
\nprivy to the internal lives and perceptions of the others in my story.<\/p>\n
Even if we were all on good terms, I wouldn’t be privy to that
\ninformation. We are all encased in our own packages and can’t know
\nexactly what it is like to see through the eyes and walk in the shoes
\nof another person. We can try but it is impossible. Great novelists can
\nbe good at it but still, no one really knows what the exact interior
\nlife is like of another. We can guess. We can approximate. We can hear
\nit described. We can extrapolate from our own experience but we never
\nreally know. So we can each tell our own tale and if we dare to try to
\ntell another’s, then we had best tread lightly because we operate with
\nincomplete information.<\/p>\n
By the way, all of this that I write here, my daughter calls "BS".
\nShe is scornful, contemptuous, and derogatory. Did I mention that she
\ndoesn’t talk to me? Unless I let her respond on the blog. She assumes
\nthat she knows my interior experience and that she knows it better than
\nI do. Even though we haven’t been close for a lot longer than I
\nrealized ten years ago.<\/p>\n
The story of my own estrangements is MY experience. I speak for no
\none but myself. No one else can speak for me. As for my other writings
\nand drawings in the blog, they are my opinion and my expression of
\nthemes of estrangement. The cartoons are not meant to be a specific
\nperson. The characters in them are generic and are based on my life
\nexperiences, on stories I have been told, on composites of people in
\nthe roles that they live, and are not meant to be specific people.
\nHowever, they may remind you of people that you knew or know. But they
\nare not those people. They are cartoon drawings of human beings caught
\nin the drama of being human and, sometimes, caught in the human
\ncondition of estrangement.<\/p>\n
Happy New Year and Welcome to the Estrangements blog on Typepad!<\/p>\n
Ginny … who is also known as Snicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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