09/30/2025
"We don’t contain multitudes, we are multitudes. We are contained by multitudes; our microbiome, fascia, bones and marrow, brain tissue, spinal fluid, heart organ, taste buds, and more become us. We (me and you); You and I (we).
"Perhaps the most amazing part of human evolution, to me, is how these multitudes come together to create and hold the beings that we are; persons that laugh, sing, cry, hurt, and wonder at the world. That these complex systems making up our body-minds have evolved to hold memories and emotions in their living tissues.That they can sense threat, intuit next moves and intentions–not just our own but also from others around us–and are multilingual, weaving rich living stories to teach us in the form of art, poetry, mathematics, myths, and dreams.
"How can we not be in awe?"
-- From "On Being Whole" --prose by Emilie O'Brien