To "Reflect, Reframe, Repair" I would add and extend: Re-witness. And then I would say: "Writing Your Future Rights".
In the inter-generational chain many of us men are the first self-conscious father-parent. And often our partners are not. And they cannot feel the internal psychobiographical gaps we are wordlessly struggling with. In this wordless aloneness we the newbie father-parent is his own first witness. It is through this witnessing that the enactments of writing did that my intentions could imagine their activities. The journal writing did languaging* for my desires to be a father-parent in the image of the love I felt in my heart for my daughter.
[*Languaging “refers to producing language, and, in particular, to producing language in an attempt to understand - to problem-solve - to make meaning.” (A.L. Becker (1991)
Becker, A. L. (1991). A short essay on languaging. Research and reflexivity, 226234.]
Thank you for this incredibly generative effort!
To "Reflect, Reframe, Repair" I would add and extend: Re-witness. And then I would say: "Writing Your Future Rights".
In the inter-generational chain many of us men are the first self-conscious father-parent. And often our partners are not. And they cannot feel the internal psychobiographical gaps we are wordlessly struggling with. In this wordless aloneness we the newbie father-parent is his own first witness. It is through this witnessing that the enactments of writing did that my intentions could imagine their activities. The journal writing did languaging* for my desires to be a father-parent in the image of the love I felt in my heart for my daughter.
[*Languaging “refers to producing language, and, in particular, to producing language in an attempt to understand - to problem-solve - to make meaning.” (A.L. Becker (1991)
Becker, A. L. (1991). A short essay on languaging. Research and reflexivity, 226234.]
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