DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS on The Moderate Voice May 16, 2008
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[UPDATE: Read Dr. E's most recent posts on The Moderate Voice.]
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DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS has been a columnist for The Moderate Voice for more than a year, but I have not linked to her columns in any recent posts. I do not have a good reason for that, since she has much to say, and I enjoy her stories and analysis.
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Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves was what informed me of her storytelling and therapist’s view of the world. From the day I found it (a few years after publication) until many months later, I read and reread the stories she told and her interpretations of their meanings. She is a wise voice in a world where we are too often lacking in wisdom.
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This evening, I started looking back through the archives of her columns in TMV and began copying links to add to this page. The list became longer and longer.
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The list below is not the complete body of Dr. Estes work on TMV, but it is a start. Visit The Moderate Voice to find more of her columns and to read the work of the other fine columnists.
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DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS is a therapist, a story teller and a writer (among other things). In many of her columns on TMV, she tells stories and analyzes human behavior as it relates to current events in the USA and around the world.
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Here are several paragraphs from one of her columns.
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.‘Barack is Not White, Barack is Not Black’ The Possible Gift in Being Bi-Racial
March 18th, 2008 by DR. CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS, TMV Columnist
Barack is, like I am, like many others of us are–for lack of a more graceful word– we are Bi-racial. Cross-racial is probably a slightly better, but still awkward term. That is, we are born twinned: one of each of two or more races is inside us. The blood of often opposing groups, runs in our cells, our bloodlines. Barack’s mother was Caucasian. His father was an African from Kenya.
People who are bi-racial are never without their twin. Never. Our twin is both ‘other’ and ‘I” at the same time. It’s a potentially tempestuous but also often transformative situation… if we give ourselves to working out its puzzle over our lifetimes.
Above is a painting by the master of brushwork and figurative art, Lucien Freud. It speaks to me and to many others who are bi-racial, because as you see in the two men on the bed, we are in “a relationship we cannot leave,” a lifelong relationship with our, often historically adversarial, bloodlines.
Cruise on over to TMV and read for awhile.
Polar Bear: The Lost Story Endurance, The Word: A Lost Story This Is West Virginia This Too Is West Virginia Rest Well. Day Is Done Prayer For The Suffering Chinese When A Good Mother Sails From This World Mother’s Day and The Mistaken Zygote: If You Have a Mama From Mars The Fierce Origin of Mother’s Day: A Lost Story Mother’s Day: A Lost Story Than Shwe: This Child Is Burma’s Only Future: Do Not Let An Entire Generation of Burmese Children Be Wiped Out by Your Inaction Burma: The Government’s Idea of Bringing Aid to the Groaning Masses of Maimed and Dead Rest For A Moment And You Thought Sister Mary Ignatius Was Strict: Not Allowed to Vote In Indiana: The Nuns’ Story Two Presidents for the Price of One: Co-Presidents Michelle, Bill and Cindy The Last First Lady: Transition from Society Balls, to Just Balls PETA Speaks About Eight Belles Being Driven To Fatal Injuries on Track About Indiana: Twelve Mostly Beloved Oddities About Hoosiers Disease Control Hugely Boosted In China by…The Olympics? A Moment of Rest Away From The Whirling Whir of the World: A Lost Story Can Any Candidate Take Us Out of Oceania and Back to the USA? Or Is That Solely Up To Us? Clinton, Obama, McCain, and Shakespeare: Relentless War Silences Those Who Demanded Peace Hillary Clinton and the Negative Mother Complex A Martian Speaks on What Some Call “Whoredom” Culture on the Couch: Obama and Wright: One’s Own Brother as Destroyer Rush Limbaugh, Charlie Brown and Our Cowboy Senator Salazar Has Any Candidate Noticed? The Investigative Storytellers Have Gone Missing Election Psychosis What Is A Destructive Cult? Who Joins? Warren Jeffs and Brother Hide Behind Women’s Skirts The FLDS Church Based on Polygamy Now in Court Clinton, Obama Debate, Schmebate President Bush’s Plans for Greenhouse Gases; The King Midas Story Pope Speaks for Planet, Because Care of Earth Critically Tied To Peace on Earth Bush, The First Catholic President?: Some Think Pope Approves George Bush’s “Use” of Catholic Social Teachings? Dr. E. from TMV, is a New Columnist for The National Catholic Reporter Louis Farrakhan Endorses Obama at “Saviours’ Day” Event in Chicago: A Tale of Who Shall Be King Michelle Obama: Those Who Say: “I Ain’t Voting For No Nigger” Fidel Castro; The Man in the Green Suit Turns Candidates Fight to Be Underdog, A Great Risk: The Boy Who Cried Wolf Burma: The Heartbeat Is Still Alive Underground Ernie Pyle, The WWII Grunts’ Storyteller For The Night Riders: Bloggers Across The World Who Write at Night The Next President: The Nation Cannot Survive Another Erl King Carrying Off Its Leader Fred Thompson Turns Back: Candidates Going Forward Have Fire in the Belly Mike Huckabee, Ads, Picket Lines: Cunning Like A Frog? Innocent Like A Mouse? A Lost Story The Lost Story of New Year’s Day: The Old Man and The Child Christmas Eve 2007: The Call Comes Walter Adler: Assaulted for Being a “Dirty Jew” …and The Traveler from Samara Still Lives Torture: Did the American Psychological Association Collude With Torture of Human Beings? Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas: Thankful for Family Elders… and Sobriety Our Hometown: Night of 100 Cats, and Belle Gunness Hugo Chavez: Students Forced Masked Soldiers to Shoot Them? Veterans’ Prayers: A Hidden Part of Warrior Life: Veterans Day 2007 Veterans Day 2007: Our Brothers and Sisters On the Job The Forgotten Ones: The Vets Who Wander Still, Veterans Day 2007 Kristallnacht: The Night of Shattering Glass, 9 November 1938 2007 Weblog Awards for Best Comic Strip: The Top Ten Gay Rights: The Religious Who Teach Non-violence, Non-condemnation of GLBT Abortion: What It Takes To Make It To Earth Torture, Arson, Flood, War: Some Vitamins for the Soul Our Home Town: Seed Corn Shall Not Be Ground Burma: Than Schwe’s Irrevocable Public Shame Burma: The Robes With No Monks in Them California Fires: Post-Trauma Recovery List Elections: Men Too Emotional to be President? Women too? Curious Clues in the Constitution. Burma: How Things AreI can’t do any more! She has written much. Go and read. TMV
** And, now it’s morning May 16, 2008. I’ve been up all night listening to Nathan and reading old posts by Dr. E. It looks as if she may have been up all night, too. There are two new posts this morning. 
Elections 2008: Bridge
Sleep, Perchance to Dream…
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