Welcome to the blog of Carol Smaldino, psychotherapist, author and most recently author of a manuscript "A Dancing Mind: Throught the Fog of Distraction to Beginnings of Clarity", and specifically author of the web site, www.adancingmind.com.
Initially I had no intention of doing a blog but there are two specific things for me:1. The thoughts keep coming and some of them dance into a formation that seems important and 2. Communication and collaboration have become more important than ever, at least for me.
I do not know how this all will go but I would like it to include matters overlooked or unspoken, like the fact that Barak Obama is a Black man, that there are racism and poverty in America, that most kids are bored by school and most adults are so pressured that we are becoming desensitized. I would like to include the loneliness of the sensitive spirits among us who are dealing with the numbness and distraction--some of them in noble ways.
I am here because I am driven by passion, inspiration, loneliness, need for community and the freedom and affirmation of speech. I know there are people stuck in the closets of their own congestion, and in the oppression of all the voices internalized by culture and family.
I am old enough (and/or secure enought) to be able to admit that I love and perhaps crave conversation with interesting and deep people who know the depths of both tragedy and wit. At moments I wish it were otherwise, that there were easy and welcoming communities without membership in clans or churches or synagogues (yes, intestinally and biologically I am Jewish), or universities, and that communication on deeper levels was more common.
But so it is...And as an official member of the ADD community and owner of a dancing mind, I will start by letting this blog dance its way into some format or direction. I will invite a variety of people to participate and hopefully we might even form a clan of our own or better yet, an open space where opinions might be created and shifted, and a pledge of allegiance is not a requirement for membership.
A beginning dialogue on topics of urgency that plague or elude or distract us. A dialogue on topics that are already in the air or in our news or travelling through us. A dialogue on topics which need integration of emotions and thought, and sometimes collaboration and guidance. A dialogue on the stuff of life, personal and political, which all too often remain for way too long, hanging in the sounds of silence...
