Sharing Is Sometimes More Demanding Than Giving.

Learning To Savor The Vertigo Of Doing Without Answers Or Making Do With Fragmentary Ones Opens Up The Pleasures Of Recognizing And Playing With Patterns, Finding Coherence Within Complexity, Sharing Within Multiplicity.

Caring Can Be Learned By All Human Beings, Can Be Worked Into The Design Of Every Life, Meeting An Individual Need As Well As A Pervasive Need In Society.

When Any Relationship Is Characterized By Difference, Particularly A Disparity In Power, There Remains A Tendency To Model It On The Parent-child-relationship. Even Protectiveness And Benevolence Toward The Poor, Toward Minorities, And Especially Toward Women Have Involved Equating Them With Children.

Worlds Can Be Found By A Child And An Adult Bending Down And Looking Together Under The Grass Stems Or At The Skittering Crabs In A Tidal Pool.

The Caretaking Has To Be Done. "somebody's Got To Be The Mommy." Individually, We Underestimate This Need, And As A Society We Make Inadequate Provision For It. Women Take Up The Slack, Making The Need Invisible As We Step In To Fill It.