Acrobatics In The Hall Of Mirrors: Hey, listen

By Lisa Brown and Violet Maze

Acrobatics In The Hall Of Mirrors
A woman writes to a mother she's never met about family and parenting.

"So, what is family? Custom? Necessity? Social acceptance? Selfish motives? It's all of that. But what is more than anything? I remember one time dreaming that I was standing in front of a mirror and the mirror could see itself in me. That irrational dream is family. It's what family is about. The young member of a family is a fresh existence bound to be transformed by force into a reflecting mirror of stale ideas, stale people, stale relations."

 

"Hey, listen" is an anthology of stories Violet and Lisa created over a period of several years. Each title is a fictionalized story, stylized as a letter, of people who were forced to confront powerful self-deceptions about the world and about their world. 

 

Dear reader, welcome to a world of psychology and emotions.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisa Brown
• Release date: Feb 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201246747

Lisa Brown

Lisa is a psychologist. She has studied psychology, clinical psychopathology and political science. She has worked extensively with people in her community on issues regarding family, relationships, parenting, career choices, communication issues, as well as feelings of insecurity, unworthiness and despair.

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About Hey, listen

Hey, listen is an anthology of stories Violet and Lisa created together over a period of several years. Each title is a fictionalized story, stylized as a letter, of people who were forced to confront powerful self-deceptions about the world and about their world. Any such ordeal is enduring and painful, but also eye-opening and life-changing.

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Progress and happiness, key themes in all the stories, are not unrelated to social issues; any society ruled by corruption, injustice, ignorance, exploitation, nepotism, prejudice and systemic inequality will sabotage or destroy people's chances to achieve progress and find happiness. Any society that promotes social justice, transparency, accountability, wisdom and equal opportunities will enhance people's chances to achieve progress and find happiness.

About Acrobatics In The Hall Of Mirrors

A woman writes to a mother she's never met about family and parenting.

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This is the story of a young woman who was adopted as a baby and raised in a foster family. She locates her biological mother and writes her a letter about mothering, parenting, family. She talks about tough decisions and about her own situation; about family as leverage; about family and society; about relations based on blood and relations based on love. She talks about being raised with love and understanding, but also about the force with which a family, or a society, can crush anyone under its weight. And then she compares her biological mother, a socially condemned mother, to socially accepted and highly respectable mothers.

Invitation To A Journey

Every book, song, film, music, performance, painting, drawing, sculpture, photograph, poem is a creation. Every creation tells a story. Every story starts a journey. What a celestial event then is when travelers reach their destination through a stranger's journey.

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Dear reader, welcome. 

Acrobatics In The

Hall Of Mirrors

Dear Stranger

Some time ago at a family dinner I received a gift with a card in it that read Happy holidays, my best wishes to you, your mother and your father. Love, Natalie. Like most people, I have received many gifts with cards like that one over the years; yet that day at that family dinner it was the first time I couldn't stop thinking about these words, mother, father. Natalie, my cousin,