FEST Writing Group

I'm too caught up to patiently comment on all these strong pieces. I am amply impressed with them all and will continue to think on them. Thanks FESTWG and Laurie for organizing this and keeping it going.

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During supervision at GUFC, Dr. Bud Andres asked me, "Who do you have to hang onto?" I hadn't considered that question before. The family roots were drying up, dying left and right, and I had not even seen that as a problem. All the successive deaths had just been “things” that were happening. I.

I am working on a presentation for the New England Seminar conference, on relationship to the land and to each other. I chose to read Richard Lee's work as an anthropologist in the early 1960s of the !Kung San in Southern Africa. I recently found a 2018 article by him in which.

Two recent books have broadened my perspective on my young adult life and the perception of my parents and ex-husband that I was a threat.  That perception led them to take steps that led to my arrest and to a 7 year long cutoff from my daughter and family. A book by Thorne Dryer.

Note: This winter Lorna Hecht-Zablow published a well written piece in Family Systems Forum on erosion of theory. I talked to Lorna, then published a response this spring. There is some connection between that piece and this one.

These thoughts were stimulated after Patrick Stinson’s visit to.

Understanding living systems must recognize that such systems do not operate one variable at a time.  Groups of variables work together to produce a result.  All the research studies which report results for only one or two variables in a living system are misleading.

When one looks at statistical results.