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hel_anaToday's Theme: Family & Friends
1. What did you learn from your parents?
2. What things did your parents argue about when you were little?
3. Who is the most serious person in your family?
4. What family member do you take after the most?
5. Has anyone in your family been divorced?
1) That I mattered and that they'd always be there when I needed them. That they would listen to me and believe me, even when another adult was claiming I was lying. I also learned about politics and faith, and that sometimes it is ok to talk about both around the dinner table. My father taught me to paddle a canoe and to watch and listen to the birds. My mother taught me how to cook and how to be kind. Together they taught me how to love without holding on so tightly that the loved one can't be their own person.
And they taught me that I didn't know everything I thought I knew about them, when I got divorced and expected disapproval and got unconditional acceptance and support.
2) I don't know. They didn't do it in front of me.
3) Probably me. I occasionally have sense of humour lapses.
4) I'm becoming my mother, but I have a lot of my dad in me, too. I can only hope to aspire to be like my grandmother.
5) Me. And my father's sister, twice.
1. What did you learn from your parents?
2. What things did your parents argue about when you were little?
3. Who is the most serious person in your family?
4. What family member do you take after the most?
5. Has anyone in your family been divorced?
1) That I mattered and that they'd always be there when I needed them. That they would listen to me and believe me, even when another adult was claiming I was lying. I also learned about politics and faith, and that sometimes it is ok to talk about both around the dinner table. My father taught me to paddle a canoe and to watch and listen to the birds. My mother taught me how to cook and how to be kind. Together they taught me how to love without holding on so tightly that the loved one can't be their own person.
And they taught me that I didn't know everything I thought I knew about them, when I got divorced and expected disapproval and got unconditional acceptance and support.
2) I don't know. They didn't do it in front of me.
3) Probably me. I occasionally have sense of humour lapses.
4) I'm becoming my mother, but I have a lot of my dad in me, too. I can only hope to aspire to be like my grandmother.
5) Me. And my father's sister, twice.
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Date: 2005-01-04 04:47 pm (UTC)