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Life is relationship. There is me, my authentic nature with its needs and curiosities and the cosmos expanding infinitely beyond me. What happens in the gap defines my life. Children are sponges. Their rapidly changing brains and bodies compulsively seek ...
Bonding Is Resonance – Resonance is Life
The weaver becomes the web. The more we relate to dead things the less alive we become. Emerson made this simple observation as the industrial revolution was pouring across the globe. The environment shapes development. Development shapes perception. Perception shapes ...
We Are The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2
My intent (whim) has been to awaken parents from the spell and implicit trap created by our cultural identity. I would not have described it as such twenty years ago, but that is an up-to-date and accurate description. By encouraging ...
We are the Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Human development is ‘model dependent.’ Every generation stands upon the shoulders of the previous. Nature assumes that the adult model, each individual and the collective culture, is sane, intelligent and wise. She could not do otherwise. Unquestioned acceptance of the ...
She Knew She Was Worth More…
Strolling to the office, a plaque rested in a merchant’s window. She Knew She Was Worth More Than Babies… Worth more than babies? What could possibly be worth more, be a higher calling, the greatest and life changing challenge anyone, ...
Not Broken Don’t Bond It
The point is maintaining relationship – not connecting something that is broken. The terms bonding and attachment imply separation, to bond, connect, glue together separate parts. Life is relationship. We are never separate, except in our minds. We are the ...