under the snow

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
So hard not to know best what the teen should do, to not teach but to give directions to the search and mirrors for the thoughts. The shields of selfhood are rising, they rile against intrusion (it can be ugly,I remember)It's a violation of others to teachpreach to the unwilling the unwanted, ah to watch them take a left when you wanted them to go right just shows how wrong it was of you to want the tried instead of embraceing their choice of the untried.The child teaches by example what the parent lost focus to...