Everything we learn about reading guides our eye and orders our understanding:
left to right, one sentence to the next. Everything we learn about living does
the same—here is the map for
The body doesn’t only keep the score of trauma, as Bessel van der Kolk’s
influential work rightly asserts. Through the skin, bodies soak in sermons about
the passions of the flesh.
When I was very young, I saw the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact. In the
movie, a family had a dolphin pool in their living room! The dolphin swims over
for