http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=364 art, life, philosophy, architecture, literature, film, performance, and other stuff Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:19:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=364#comment-272 amarilla Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:10:36 +0000 http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=364#comment-272 Your family's interactions and passionate communication are greatly inspiring and appreciated and very different I think than what I've inherited growing up in the US where families are often very fragmented. There's so much running away from. In much American literature the protagonist is in some way an orphan searching for wholeness. You have to wonder about the emotional state of someone like Peter Claesen Wykoff of Brooklyn who came to America from Holland on his own as an indentured servant when he was 11. Perhaps adventure and ambition filled in for connection in some cases. Or perhaps a few kind strangers fill in the gaps in the cases of the lucky. Your family’s interactions and passionate communication are greatly inspiring and appreciated and very different I think than what I’ve inherited growing up in the US where families are often very fragmented. There’s so much running away from. In much American literature the protagonist is in some way an orphan searching for wholeness. You have to wonder about the emotional state of someone like Peter Claesen Wykoff of Brooklyn who came to America from Holland on his own as an indentured servant when he was 11. Perhaps adventure and ambition filled in for connection in some cases. Or perhaps a few kind strangers fill in the gaps in the cases of the lucky.

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