"Back From Mother's"

First I want to thank everyone for stopping by while I was away. It was wonderful to come home to supportive comments!

Well we survived another visit with "the Mother". We did fairly well, although there were some creepy moments. We worked very hard and managed to get all the Spring cleaning finished. We also shopped with "the Mother" for new drapes for her living room. That went fine. Then...."the Mother" wanted to shop for clothes. (internally, utter chaos prevailed) Thoughts of our childhood shopping with "the Mother" surfaced for some, accompanied by fear, self-loathing and sadness. While "others" longed to insult her, as she tried on clothes after clothes after clothes. Still "others" were very agitated because they did not get to shop, it was all about "the Mother". And "one" watched in utter rage as "the Mother" disregarded "every one's" feelings! We left the store with a book, no clothing.

"We" took "the Mother" on a little cruise around town. We wanted to see her reaction to some areas we remember as painful and even terrifying. Our last drive by was the "Haunted House". No one can even imagine the Courage it took from all of "us" to accomplish this. The "Haunted House" has changed. It's a different color, the large porch, where the swing hung, was gone, the berry bush, also gone but the windows......appeared as huge eyes watching "us", remembering "us" and they seemed to be crying, as the relentless rain fell. We are over-whelmed with emotion and must stop writing for now. Hugs to all!

"us"

"The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body and although we repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated. our perceptions confused and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth".