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FAMILIAR Vol 1, Iss 2..............................................................................................................................
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BEHIND
THE SCENES OF AN EMOTION LITERACY E-ZINE MISSION
STATEMENT THE FAMILIAR VOL. 1 ISS. 2. Missed an issue of the familiar? Click here to browse through our entire back-issue archive! |
editor's note There is a thread here amongst these entries, these entries for the second issue of the familiar… entries into the search, amidst the web of coinciding and conflicting needs, for understanding …that understanding creates the map…without it, we remain lost, our choices dimmed and the possibilities remote…the paths we take may take us far, but distance without understanding is wondering. Emotion literacy, as a method for understanding, is less about emotion than it is about how we think about emotion and how to trace the source of our thinking. Emotion has a context—filled with relationships and circumstances—and though our ideas of such things are not the things themselves, we need ideas to experience that context in full. Emotion is like a vase carrying the flowers of feeling-infused relationships and circumstances—is there a recognizable variety of colors, shapes and textures there? Do they have names and associations? In full bloom, have you ever thought a flower ugly or weak or trivial, in and of itself, or by comparison? What informs such thinking? It is my contention, that were we to know the full-spectrum of meaning behind the emotion, within the context of individual relationships and circumstances and were we to engage our mind, our thoughts, through creative, in effect, spontaneous writing, something otherwise viewed as ugly, would become fascinating and trivia would gain gravity. To remain inquisitive, in the face of the most perplexing terrain… to remain inquisitive when our questions have gone unnoticed or chided…to remain inquisitive without the company of others is to do the difficult and essential job of preserving our innocence, empathy and opportunity to evolve. To protect our feelings and take their part, in full view, is to advocate for a child. ..children have not yet learned the ways of the adulterated mind and therefore are unequivocal about their inner life. To reveal it, no matter what the shape, color or texture, is to be alive in full—a formidable, less than familiar, undertaking…on its way, by virtue of this publication, and other efforts like it, to becoming more familiar. I
have organized the entries for the familiar’s Issue #2 according
to their relativity—the links from piece to piece within named sections
will speak for themselves…my intention is that they will prompt further
inquiry into your own reach for understanding. I, along with the
familiar’s contributing writers and artists welcome your engagement
which will hopefully result in some emails to us. Each issue of the
familiar begins with a small group of emotion literacy explorers
and ends with an invitation to the community of future and fellow
explorers. --Pamela
Sackett |
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The
Familiar encourages you to explore your own use of language as a key |