connectedness

Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.

You belong to the world

by Carrie Fountain

as do your children, as does your husband.

It’s strange even now to understand that

you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts

were given to you and that you received them,

fond as you’ve always been of declining

invitations. You belong to the world. The hands

that put a peach tree into the earth exactly

where t

when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.