What Is the Point Of All These Excerpts?
I read once in a book that the author’s mother “gave me the greatest gift a parent can give a child: total, unconditional love...but, in her desire to protect me from the traumas of her own life, she denied me the gift of intimacy. She knew me and she understood me, but she didn’t allow me to know or to understand her.”
This has stuck with me over 21 years of being a parent, and a fallible one.
With sons now well into and beyond their teens, my chance to re-visit whether I shared enough of my personal self with my sons is perhaps moot, or at least muted. And …
As an artist, my reason for focusing so intensively on creating and arranging materials is to address this in a way…to reach out, resonate, listen and learn and express: interconnect.
Both roads, as fallible but hopelessly devoted parent and as driven connection-addicted artist, lead me to excerpt for the past decade every thing of merit that I read. The reasons for such excerpts are two:
Not summaries of any book, these excerpts are either (1) outright and overtly strong and good writing, or (2) articulation of something I really to my core believe is true, makes sense, or bears serious scrutiny.
That’s it.
The project started out as a way to share with my sons what is right, wrong, and going on with their mother, deep inside. The project is now broadened, here:
Should anyone wander in here, please: read, think, share, and I hope in a modest way, be inspired. It would be a privilege to hear any feedback, or titles or excerpts that similarly moved you.
Ceci Cole McInturff
-
Recent Posts
- Excerpts of Contemplative Science-Where Buddhism and Contemplative Neuroscience Converge
- Excerpts of We’re Still Family, by Constance Ahrons
- Excerpts of The Science of Religion, by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Excerpts of Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Excerpts of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, by Jeanette Winterson
Archives
Monthly Archives: August 2012
EXCERPTS of How To Be An Adult, by David Richo
P. ix “In my years as a clinical psychologist, I have come to the conclusion that emotional and spiritual health is based on unconditional love, and that happy, mature people have somehow picked up the knack of being generous with … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
eightysevenflorida 