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May 3, 2022Liked by Tom Pendergast

Since I met you Tom, your radical honesty and self-acceptance has always had a way of inspiring some parts of me I don’t pay attention to to speak up. I don’t know if that makes any sense, but I appreciate that about knowing you Tom.

Maybe when there is deeply troubled bonds in immediate family relationships, especially with parents, maybe there is a metaphorical fire that comes from all the distraught feelings. Some of us are lucky enough to see that fire, and know we have a choice what to do with that fire inside us, that fire we didn’t ask for. It sounds like you used your fire to light the way for your future, which is what we all want our parents to do, just ironically, not by leaving us with a fire and no clarity about what to do with it.

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Many years ago now, my younger brother, a folksinger, summed up our feelings on this subject: "I was our father was Pete Seeger."

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