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If you doubt this, look at infants and toddlers. The sweetest random acts of kindness and generosity I have seen have been committed by toddlers and very small children before they have had their wills broken; before they have been taught to feel bad about themselves, and before they have begun projecting those feelings of inadequacy and failure onto “the other”.



One example I will relate is from a movie but based on a story from one Native American culture’s perspective. The other… Continue

The Mother is alive. Her development has always been marked by milestones; they are cyclical. Some future cycles will be easy, some will be difficult. Climates and weather patterns change and shifts happen; people live, people die. This is life.



What matters most for our species is how we choose to respond to the shifts. We think of relationship as a condition that is between ourself and other chosen humans. Sometimes we think of relationship as being between ourself… Continue