Good Morning Tree. I hope you will forgive the length of this comment. There is just so much to say about this wonderful,WONDERFUL article that you have written about blended families.
How did I find it? By clicking on Dr Y’s morning update from yesterday’s Illumination posts (titled: Nobody Wants to Miss These). Illumination published a poem of mine yesterday ( titled: An Argument for Blank as a Feeling). One which was written from a buried chamber deep inside of me.
So of course, I was curious to see my poem in the list with all the other submissions for June 29. Yes, I have looked at those excellent recaps before. But today…I don’t know. I felt like a kid in a candy store.Times are weird these days so no wonder things happen on one day rather than another and you go… “Oh!”
Anyways. I was doing the ol’ “I wanna read that one, I wanna read this one” Before too long, it hit me. Why not spend my entire day reading only Illumination articles in Dr Y’s article about June 29.
If I can get away with my candy store analogy, I will have sugar overload and loving every minute.
I decided it would be my end of the first six months of 2020 gift to myself. (Needless to say, what a year it has been so far…we all deserve presents at this half way juncture)
In the process of scanning all the Illumination posts from yesterday, I also found other recaps of groups of stories that Mehmet included at the end of his article. That is how I found this article of yours. When I saw your title I knew it had to be my first read of this day.
Tree. The organized presentation of your topic in this article. The excellent suggestions you give for dealing with these situations. Your addictive writing style that immediately engages the reader. No wonder, as Mehmet writes in his comment to you, that you were curated by Medium. Congratulations, BTW.
Your article also spoke to me in a personal way. I grew up in a blended family. Later on I married into one. Neither of those journeys were smooth ( to say the least). I found myself wishing your article was around in those days. Your suggestions would have saved a lot of pain and heartache.
The relationship with the person partly covered in my poem yesterday: ( the one about “Blank” as a feeling), is as troubled and failed as it is partly because we were so young when we lost our mother and partly because of the blended family that came soon after. ( Argh…I hope you don’t mind that this comment has become such a pour out a piece of the heart letter to you…I blame your article for that!! 😀)
I want you to know that your article has inspired me to consider writing some pieces about these blended families. If I do, I wanted to ask your permission to reference your article as my inspiration. If you are not OK with that I totally understand. But if you are, it would be my pleasure and honor to refer to you and this article.
You know, in both those blended situations, as far as I can remember, there was no consultation to any books or articles for ideas to make the best of these realities. For certain the books exist but we just went by the seat of our pants. That was not a good plan.
I am wondering if you have already or whether you are considering writing some books on this subject? You would do an amazing job.
Time to end this long comment. Thank you so much for your time, Tree. I do look forward to hearing from you. Oh. One thing I do know…if I write comments in a length like this to every other Illumination author I plan to read today….well… I might get through 5 if I am lucky, before the day ends.
Thanks again for reading, Tree.🥰
