text: If they did sail off the cliff-top into oblivion would it have been for a worthy cause? Would anybody care?
  It was too late; the cars heavy front end dipped as it left terra firma and the heavy metal spun headlong toward the briny deep……………………..
  A very creative entree…but such type of humour often disguises real anger. Would it be possible to explain your anxieties to us in more straightforward language, so that we can consider them honestly?
  It wasn’t meant to be humorous although reading it back it seems more profound even absurd. I am trying to be “the fly on the wall”. You talk a great talk about feminism and how your ideology would change the world for the better, but for me this bears no relevance to re-connecting with your children and being the good father we all know you are.
  It’s almost as if it has become an avoidance tactic to obscure the huge emotional pains that a lot of us are going through. Surely, in a time honoured sense, solutions lie in the here and now not in some idealistic future where good and bad are redefined in your favour.
  The world of emotion is a complex and yet simple one, devoid of logic but a potential reservoir of great comfort and happiness. Sometimes we have to let the grief go before new hope and love can enter our hearts. Karen tells us about the power of empathy and how we can share in and then soothe the lives of our children. These are precious words from someone who knows what it is like to lose a parent. This is what I hear, what I feel.
  that seems straightforward enough a description to me Anonymous thank you for responding in this way to Woodman – I did find your post humerous if somewhat on the dark side and I do agree that the focus on feminism for good or ill is a red herring, what matters is only what we can do now in the relationship between us.
  Are you concerned for me personally – that I might not be making the right moves to reconnect with my alienated child?
  Are you concerned that in examining the macro issues underlying our plight – I might be distracting anyone else from the immediate work of reconnecting with their children?
  If so, I would like to invite yourself and anyone who is able to attend – to a special Saturday 17th May (1.30 pm – 3.30 pm) event of our weekly ‘Community Sound’ initiative…where we are able to share, listen to and participate in the songs which most express our emotional states.
  It may be that this is the ONLY such opportunity currently available in the UK, so may be worth traveling for – and it is free.
  This is the anticipated song list…the vast majority of which, incidentally, has been put forward by men. More of a female focus, next time, perhaps. But thankfully, most songs – we can all relate to equally.
  I should draw particular attention to “The Living Years”…a particularly powerful song of reunification.