Sublime

Rachel Naomi Remen, who once observed,

The experience of the body is never only about the body.

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

In contrast, baby brains modify across vast territories.

Raichlen, D. & Alexander, G. 2020. Why your brain needs exercise. Scientific American 322(1), 26 – 31.

The adult brain, once believed to be hopelessly “fixed and immutable,” is now thought capable of much greater plasticity than ever before.