Comments on: Your ideal family (playing with Wishcraft)

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:52:40 +0000

Would you mind hosting chapters 6, 8, and 10? I can’t open these chapters on wishcraft.com

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:22:43 +0000

Havi, I just found this. HA. My family:

CS Lewis
Rilke
GLINDA THE GOOD WITCH
Miles Davis
James Taylor

–Sarah G.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:02:03 +0000

Wow, this is so cool! I’m so grabbing Jackie Chan. And Jen Louden could be my mum!

I’m going to go away and do this exercise.

It reminds me of something else I loved – the bit in Eat Pray Love where she’s recruiting all kinds of cool people from history to sign her petition to god. Powerful stuff there, too.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:41:20 +0000

I can’t even concentrate enough to come up with my ideal family. I don’t think I even know who these people might be.
I’m cranky and I really wish I could imagine a world where:
… an ideal environment as (among other things) one …
“… in which you were:
* given real help and encouragement in finding out what you wanted to do and how to do it …
* allowed to complain when the going got rough, and given sympathy instead of being told to quit …
* bailed out when you got in over your head — without reproach…”

::sneaking off to office bathroom for a silent cry::

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:40:54 +0000

::sneaking off to office bathroom for a silent cry::

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:26:53 +0000

I think it is fascinating how deep it really is. Every time one of my persons even starts to say something, I get all choked up and can’t finish. I want to finish this but am a bit scared so I thought I’d save it for a long plane ride. (Wait, do I really want to be crying on the plane. Maybe I should think this through.) My quick list includes Audrey Hepburn, Emily of New Moon (a character in a 3-book series by LM Montgomery), Mark Rothko, Rumi or Hafiz, Gandhi, definitely one of the Greek or Roman gods (haven’t decided which one), Scheherazade ..
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By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:20:59 +0000

Wow, I was trying to think of a list and hit me: I’ve done this before!
In high school, a super-hard time in my life, sometimes in the shower, instead of working on my acceptance speech (for the Pulitzer), I’d talk to the writer of whatever book I was reading then. Or one of the characters.
And they would always listen to me and tell me fabulously encouraging things about myself. And sometimes I’d cry or just think “yeah, they’re right!”.

I’d completely put that out of my mind until just now, as I began to write my comment.

Thanks for reminding me!
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By: Lean Ni Chuilleanain

Lean Ni Chuilleanain — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:27:37 +0000

Wow. What an exercise. I think it’s a sign of how deep it really is that nobody has shared their results here!

I haven’t done this yet (partly because I’m kind of terrified!), but I have Reginald Jeeves, Sherlock Holmes, Granny Weatherwax, Leonard Cohen, the goddess Bríd, and Stephen Fry all sitting patiently in my head, waiting to have their say.
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By: Kate T.W.

Kate T.W. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:39:06 +0000

I’m in on the Hepburn fan club. I was actually named after her, so she’s been part of my imaginary family all my life. ;-)

Barbara, Thank you so much for making this excellent work available!
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By: Erika

Erika — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:27:07 +0000

Thanks for the lead, Havi. The Wishcraft is the best book on parenting I’ve ever read. Nevermind my own childhood problems, but my kids deserve better lives and I’m proud to say that based on Wishcraft, I’m not too bad of a parent after all.
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