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Saint Patrick was a prisoner too
I recently saw a great autobiographical movie of Brendan Behan’s experience (at age 16) as a captured IRA terrorist sent to a British boys prison in 1940. Borstal Boy is his story, how he deals with his hatred of the … Continue reading
Sexual Healing of Child Abuse
Is there a way to stop gay men from hitting on you? Shiva thought so, just embrace a surrogate father. Symbolically that is the problem, not the solution. Here’s Shiva’s story, told from the dad’s perspective. Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol abuse, Healing Sexual Abuse
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Holding My Sun
The man was in his mid-thirties. After the Native American Ceremony he told me that he was trying to allow love and affection into his life, to receive it with open arms. Recently separated from his wife and child, he … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol abuse, Coyote, Hermes, Mentoring Men, Radical Faeries, sexual abuse in childhood
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Just a 13 year-old girl
My dad used to tell me when he had a few shots of alcohol in him, “your mom’s just a thirteen year old girl.” After 37 years of marriage to Phyllis McFadden Melville, John F. Melville died before turning 60. … Continue reading
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The Blue Fox
My neighbor was watching some ducks sitting on the surface of a stream, when he noticed a fox across the way, eyes wide open and focusing on the duck dinner swimming beyond his grasp. The fox was watching the water … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol abuse, Mentoring Men, post traumatic stress
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Smoking Meth
Smoking ganga and meth with one’s parents is a strange family custom, especially from age 5. Approaching the Holiday season always brings up old issues and memories. The Blue Fox was no exception. His marriage on the rocks, business chaotic, … Continue reading
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The Neighboring Satyr
Sometimes it pays to know your mythology. The god of the vine, Dionysos, brings lowered inhibitions, drama, music, dance and erotic play with his band of maenads and satyrs. This story is about an intellectual, talented and sensitive young man who appears at my door looking psychically half man and half beast, a Satyr in human clothes. Continue reading
Coyote’s Pitfalls: the dangers of mentoring men.
The Native American Trickster Coyote is a metaphor of great power and help. His androgynous nature explains how we act out both sexual orientations in relationships. Experiences in infancy and early childhood create expectations and pattern our future behavior. Preverbal and unconscious, they surprise us as compulsive feelings, desires, and behavior. Becoming aware of how our parents’ ignorance created our patterns is the first step to change. Perception isn’t what we feel it to be, like Coyote it is very tricky. Continue reading
Sexual Abuse in Childhood
My friend and colleague, the River Jaguar, asked me why I don’t write about my experience of feeling abandoned by my family, about being sexually molested by my parents as a child, and how it has affected me and my … Continue reading
