Sublime

shiksa,

Poverty is being deprived of basic goods that human bodies and minds need to thrive. Lacking a beach front house may not be a form of oppression, but the absence of beauty is a socially produced impoverishment of the spirit.

But beauty is a spiritual matter, and as such it is no respecter of social status. Beauty opens onto the world beyond our private concerns.

the ocean of our longing. We can risk letting women matter to

We no longer possess the mimeographed outline of our findings that we took to the conference, but the central idea was that the medical profession as we knew it (still over 90 percent male) had replaced and driven out a much older tradition of female lay healing, including both midwifery and a range of healing skills, while closing medical educatio

To acknowledge that none of the ways we live our gendered lives is fully satisfying, that all of us are to some degree wounded in our sexuality, that none of us can live out all our fantasies, be all we dream of being, have all we long for, is to recognize that others who choose different paths from our own do so on our behalf. They live for us, as

we think we are alike in significant ways, and when that does not check out, we object to our partners, or the world, being different from how we see it.

Outside your awareness, her absence triggered feelings you had decades ago when you were being raised by working parents.

human becoming.