Fluidity And Discontinuity Are Central

The Human Species Thinks In Metaphors And Learns Through Stories.

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.

The Past Empowers The Present, And The Sweeping Footsteps Leading To This Present Mark The Pathways To The Future.

Of Any Stopping Place In Life, It Is Good To Ask Whether It Will Be A Good Place From Which To Go On As Well As A Good Place To Remain.

Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.