Simply Too Much Shadow to Share

Not too current on this blog thing, am I? Afraid my last entry was in January...

Ah, well. I assume you've all had plenty to look at on the internet without any input from me.

Sometimes there's simply too much shadow to talk about. Or write about in public, anyway.

A marriage breaks up, the two people live apart for months, then their marriage reforms with new dynamics. Re-marriage, but with the same two principal characters.

And as that goes on relationships with children -- really, I should think of something else to call them besides children, the youngest is 26, for Christ's sake -- also change and evolve.

I don't know about you, but I can't seem to grow without pain. Like that story where the Worm/Dragon has to peel off 7 different layers of skin in order to become human again. Ouch. It hurts to peel off layers of old persona, old masks, old habits, old kneejerk reactions developed in childhood (complexes, a Jungian would call them).

Even when those old skins are so worn out they no longer keep out the elements, it hurts to pull them off and find out what's underneath.

So please excuse my silence. There's simply been too much shadow to share.