You Won’t Find Your Inner Child on a Milk Carton
Dedicated to Jen Lyman – May you find your Selves and gather them together in love and safety and may you wholly heal, both inside and out.
I was told recently that part of me is missing. I wondered, what exactly does that mean? I have all of my limbs, my digits, my hair, though I am short a few internal organs. So hey, perhaps I am a bit disjointed. Aren’t we all? Apparently I misunderstood. I was told instead to imagine that we each have a number of different selves within us determined by how long we’ve lived and depending on our life experiences. Say, for me, I have five selves. (God forbid I’ve left any out.) For example, I have myself as a child, a teenager, a married self, a divorced self, and my current self. Well, unbeknownst to me, my inner child is on the lamb. Read more