Despite the fact that it heralds another year gone and another year older, October is turning out to be a glOrious month. Last year, my husband, Alan and our son, David and his girlfriend (now wife), Marlene, took me on a surprise trip to Ireland–my beloved Ireland– following a surprise party to ‘celebrate’ a BIG birthday—which one isn’t really important; I still feel like a kid. That trip was magical. Next week, we take off for another extravaganza during which we will toast my next birthday–but this time with our closest friends, Carol and Fred. We board ship in San Diego for a month long cruise to Hawaii and the Polynesian Islands. If these two years are forerunners of birthdays to come, I’m going to do my best to suffer through.
October
October 9, 2012
Where Poetry & Psychology Meet
With this blog, I'm joining my lives, my loves: my profession as a poet and also as a psychologist. My belief in the psyche and the unconscious and the ways each get played out in our lives-with ourselves, with spouses, parents, children, friends.
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In Orphans, poet psychologist Joan Cusack Handler explores our most primitive and essential relationships – those with our parents – our aging parents – particularly the intense ambivalence that stems from the truth of their impending death.
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