Sermon Description:
That three-master in the harbor…Is it the Elissa? Or could it be the Jolly Roger? And the wicked pirate who lived in the Maison Rouge…Was that Jean Lafitte? Or maybe Captain Hook? And who made our burial mounds? The Karankawa? Or was it Tiger Lily’s Band? And that quite large reptile swimming in the canal…Is it Chompers, the friendly neighborhood alligator? Or do I hear the ticking of a clock?
I have always wondered whether our island could have been the inspiration for J.M. Barrie’s creation of Peter Pan’s Island. After a summer of research I can say, sadly but definitively, no.
However, Never Never Land is not exactly a geographic entity. And some of us can journey there instantaneously regardless of where we start out from.
Dr. Jean Goodwin is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and was (now retired) a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UTMB and a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston. She is an author, lecturer, and consultant on issues of childhood trauma and dissociation.
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