https://www.artandhealing.org/17-year-locust/ The UnLonely Project is our Signature Initiative Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.artandhealing.org/17-year-locust/#comment-3106 Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:28:30 +0000 https://www.artandhealing.org/?p=246373#comment-3106 My Irish ancestors (surname Shaughnessy/O’Shaughnessy were forced to assimilate during the potatoe famine that created mass starvation among the Irish potatoe farming family clans. My whole life I have felt a terrible homesickness and a strange sense of Longing for Belonging . . . a stranger in a very strange land. I so resonate with the message of this film as well as the whole issue of “unwanted pregnancy” . . . being . . . “pregnant out of wedlock” and all the suffering related to the stigmata of simply being so to speak . . . “inducted” into something called “The Great American Dream” . . . . for a multitude of “immigrants” being a terrifying nightmare from which we are only beginning to existentially . . . Awaken . . . Arise . . . and Ascend.

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