Thanks for your perspective on the ‘family disease’.

While your story focused on a family whose actions resulted in socially unacceptable behavior (i.e. breaking the law and being incarcerated), I view this type of learned group behavior with a slightly different colored lens.

Would that we all came into this world with an inherent sense of ‘Right and Wrong’. These parameters – boundaries – sensibilities – are not genetically ingrained…..hence, ‘the sins of the fathers….’

This DIS-EASE (because that is exactly what it is to the objective viewer) is an emotional, mental, psychological and sometimes physiological dis-connect for any one or all members of a ‘family’.

And, unless we’re given or forced to see ourselves and our actions as dis-abling, we will continue to keep doing what we’ve always done because that’s all we ‘know’.

In the psychological community – it’s ‘cognitive dissonance’. Discordant disconnects. The remedy? Cognitive therapy — the opportunity to shed the scales from our eyes and see that our ‘reality’ is misguided mis-aligned perception.

Emotional integrity, intelligence and pursuant self-fulfilling prosperity cannot bear fruit until we finally see with ‘new eyes’ that ‘the dots’ really do exist – and that our individual purpose in this lifetime is to connect our own unique dots to create our uniquely beautiful artistic life….for our own prosperity and in tune with our earthly ‘family’.

Again, thanks for the opportunity to stretch…..and to connect.

Peace