The Uterine Connection
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Long before there were galaxies, long before the spread of famine and human disease, long before Zeus courted Athena atop Olympus, and long before Sada the stalwart, Sada the gracious, Sada the magnanimous was spotted in our midst, a trio of female entities began their reign: untouchable, highly influential, eloquently supreme. Although not a one was born from a uterus, although not a one has ever desired to take human form, all three have graced the center of our personal and collective stage. While Eternity, the ultimate female force and mother, has been the more dominant, her daughters Fate and Destiny ought not be summarily dismissed or relegated to obscurity. Both daughters have throughout history influenced and directed us, keeping us well within their reach. As we work, as we frolic, even as we sleep, they remain engaged in the ongoing management of this our planet. Each moment, each event receives attendance from their respective hands. While we delude ourselves with the notion of personal choice, languish in the notion of free will, take pride in our right to vote, they have been overseeing our individual and collective realities. While we attempt to dominate the planet and to dominate one another, Fate has deemed it timely and essential that this tale of Sada, of the violence wrought by guns, and of Sada’s beloved Uterine Connection be recounted in its unabridged entirety. Eternity desires only that you extend Fate your time. Destiny has requested only that you adopt a belief, not in the occult, not in the demonic, but in the implausible and that which is undeniably true. Fate, the creator, has specifically asked that you surrender both your head and your heart to her. The rest, that is, your availability, which resides somewhere within the confines of you, needs only to respond to the immediacy of Fate’s call. Your personal demons and your past, like Sada’s, may be called upon and challenged. Fate offers the courage to confront, to change; Fate loves to disperse denial and all forms of human suppression. The discovery of individual purpose always receives the exclusivity of both Fate’s beguiling hands.
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The Uterine Connection is a novel about seven women whose ordinary lives are transformed when a gang of twelve teenage boys open fire upon hundreds of shoppers in a large, upscale Southern California mall, wounding and killing over three hundred women and children. Sada, U.C.'s seventy year old heroine, suddenly finds herself within the four walls of the hospital ICU for weeks, ministering to her critically injured granddaughter Mia in a coma, actively entering the lives of other women brought together by the enormity of this disaster. The many mesmerizing and tireless qualities of Sada do not yield to this trauma, nor do they shy away from challenging herself, her personal God, and specific others. As Sada is forced to pursue her own truths, shun her denial, and wrestle with the differing personalities of Judith, Stacey, Susan, Rodriguez, Marilyn and Ellen, Fate holds on tightly to her, and Sada becomes a unifying force in each of these women's lives. Stirred by the magnitude of Sada's uniquely female response to adversity, those closest to her insist that she more openly herald this universal female genetic code, that she separate from her anonymity and assume the lead of a movement by women to end the acquisition of guns and the violence brought by the random use of guns. Fate herself, although not without unexpected heartache and challenge, helps Sada to overcome her reluctance to lead and to forge her Uterine Connection for an ultimately grateful nation to receive. Humanity, thanks to both Sada and Fate, is reminded that it, too, can adhere to a higher calling. As for the uterus, Sada and Fate make evident that the seat of all human life rivals both bullet and the gun.
About the Author
For as long as Marilyn J. Blank can remember, others brought their secrets and emotional conflicts to her door. Never one to shy away from another's pain or conflict, forever drawn to decoding the complexities inherent in human dynamics and the issues underlying human loss, Marilyn’s fate was sealed at a young age. Throughout her thirties, Marilyn actively participated in both the Women's Movement and the Human Potential Movement, emerging as a Gestalt therapist with a feminist perspective, and following graduate school, as a licensed clinical social worker with a passion for detecting and eliminating both individual and collective denial. By the early 1980's, Marilyn, now living in Southern California, had joined the voices of other women who were speaking out about the hideous legacies of childhood and adult sexual assault. Lending her own voice to the unearthing of this form of violence led Marilyn to develop a specific therapeutic approach to treating adult survivors of rape and incest, to design and teach workshops for women and other professionals, and ultimately to write. Marilyn's regard for the unique resources and strengths of women in the face of adversity remains sturdily intact today, as does her desire to dignify personal experiences and emotions shielded from the light of day. Her pursuit of personal and collective truth guides Marilyn in the creative realm as steadfastly as it always has in her work as a psychotherapist. Conceived in a small town in Southern New Hampshire, The Uterine Connection's landscape, spirit and characters imposed their collective will, carrying Marilyn back to Southern California, to a small town in the desert, where she presently continues her practice of psychotherapy.