We must grieve the loss of our innocence from our childhood. We are all born with the potential for a more expansive love of self and other. Emotional/psychic wounding in our childhood, intentional or derived from ignorance, become the tricksters who fool us into believing that we have no value, save what the family, or society, believes that we have, We are infinitely more precious than that, yet few there be who will recognize it, because of their own pain and/or ignorance of our spiritual heritage.
I attended Cedar Oak Park Grade School for grades 1-4, from 1961-1964. I began
first grade when I was five years old, after my mother received permission from the school district for early entrance, which occurred after I passed a series of tests proving that I had the capacity to succeed. As a four year old, and for much of my fifth year, I experienced crushing loneliness when my sister, eighteen months older than me, graduated from our oppressive baby sitter to attend first grade.
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