Debbie Bumstead

Dear Dr. Pullias: a Healing Epistolary Friendship Between Generations: Earl V. Pullias, Ph.d. and Debbie Bumstead - 1968-1978

Publisher Marketing: From Dear Dr. Pullias: "I feel like singing because of all my love for the beautiful people, the children, the green plants surrounding the world, the humming sparkled weather. My whole life it seems is in me; everything I see or do moves within me the bursting that is me." Debbie and Dr. Pullias - Their words will fill your heart, and help with your own search for TBGL - Truth, Beauty, Goodness, and Love, the revered Ancient Greek ideals. Dear Dr. Pullias, written by a teenage girl and a man in his 60s shows how a deep loving friendship can develop between two like souls despite the generation gap. Debbie, shy, creative, eager with joyous and detailed observation of her world, yet troubled by past and present traumas, and Earl V. Pullias, Ph. D., well-known psychologist, writer, and USC professor, travel through the 60s/70s together as they experience the joys and sorrows of life. Included, among other subjects: The Love of Nature & The Nature of Love A Teenager's Understanding of Self -- and of Sex Fear of Death & Nightmares Surviving Troubled Parents Struggling to Live the Truth in a Dormitory Boyfriend Crisis + Bad Trip = Breakdown The Healing Power of Horses (& Cats & Dogs) The Bumstead Curse & the Challenge of Independence Additional Material includes: The Epistolary Mystery; Debbie and Dr. Pullias's List of Books to Read, Discussion Ideas, and An Appreciation of Dr. Pullias by Flora M. Brown, Ph. D. "I wonder why I write you all these personal things. Every teenager ought to have someone to write to--Just to write things that you can't say. Thank you. Debbie" "Dear Debbie, I have believed since I knew you as a child that you are a very special person, and that those good qualities within you will unfold and grow as you grow older, and that you will be able to be and to do especially good things, especially for children and perhaps also for animals. But I should not like to talk about these things too much lest I frighten them away. Yet now I feel our friendship is deep enough that I can feel free to say whatever I wish - I hope you feel the same way. Dr. Pullias" Contributor Bio:  Bumstead, Debbie As many others, I have long written and painted in solitude. Now I humbly present this book of poems and paintings, hoping you will see the unique, colorful, mischievous, joyous, as well as terribly sad voice in my words and images.