Sunday, September 18, 2016
The 'Step' Factor: I'm breathing new life into my blogs. I've found t...
The 'Step' Factor: I'm breathing new life into my blogs. I've found t...: I'm breathing new life into my blogs. I've found that I need them way more than they need me. I haven't been back to this one s...
I'm breathing new life into my blogs. I've found that I need them way more than they need me. I haven't been back to this one since 2011. It amazes me that I forgot I even created it after becoming a published columnist for the Examiner which no longer exists. I'm going through the painstaking task of republishing the almost 300 articles. Within that process I was going to delete this blog but remembered how passionate I am about getting this message across. I wanted this blog to be a place where anyone out there, who may be experiencing this dynamic in their lives, can come and find solitude in knowing they are not the only one who feel this way.
The world has changed from when my parents (the baby boomers) were growing up. The world is no longer a place where couples stay together until death do them part. The family dynamic is becoming this melting pot of people who come from all walks of life. We have legal gay marriage now! Some are choosing to have children as naturally as they can by using surrogates while others are adopting. Families are breaking up in droves and creating new blended families. Blended families are the most common, I've found, where you have two divorced families who now marry and there are two sets of broken families becoming one.
The 'step' factor means so many things, but most of all, it means 'the other', the other person or people who have been added to a family that may or may not be welcomed. I hope to shed light on the loneliness that happens, the feelings of not belonging, and also bring a sense that there is a way to grow beyond those feelings so you now become a cohesive group of people who can manage to evolve into what we all want; a family.
The world has changed from when my parents (the baby boomers) were growing up. The world is no longer a place where couples stay together until death do them part. The family dynamic is becoming this melting pot of people who come from all walks of life. We have legal gay marriage now! Some are choosing to have children as naturally as they can by using surrogates while others are adopting. Families are breaking up in droves and creating new blended families. Blended families are the most common, I've found, where you have two divorced families who now marry and there are two sets of broken families becoming one.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Despair
There are so many moments where I didn't get it right,
I feel the emptiness inside and inside I fight,
I miss the splendor of innocense, I hope one day it'll make sense,
Right now I'm lost and I can't be found. My life and my world won't turn around.
Do I lose all hope and just give up? Or do I keep trying when life's too tough?
My heart aches because I don't know what to do
I have to figure out my life real real soon
I'm all torn up, I'm twisted inside
All I wanna do is run and hide
A poem by Dannette Brooks
I feel the emptiness inside and inside I fight,
I miss the splendor of innocense, I hope one day it'll make sense,
Right now I'm lost and I can't be found. My life and my world won't turn around.
Do I lose all hope and just give up? Or do I keep trying when life's too tough?
My heart aches because I don't know what to do
I have to figure out my life real real soon
I'm all torn up, I'm twisted inside
All I wanna do is run and hide
A poem by Dannette Brooks
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