We Don't Get Offered Crises, They Arrive.

Power Is Not A Thing To Be Owned. But If You Believe That It Is Such A Thing, Losing It Becomes A Possibility To Fear. That Fear, I Think, Is One Reason For The Dark Projections Of A Catastrophic Future That Are So Widespread, In Our Dual Society. The Present Powerful, Being Committed To Polarization, Expect That Any New Deal Will Overturn The One That Set Them In Authority; That The Last Shall Be First And The First Last, Role Reversal Everywhere, Men As Slaves, Women As Masters, In A Revolution Of Contradiction.

The Surprise Of Animals... In And Out, Cats And Dogs And A Milk Goat And Chickens And Guinea Hens, All Taken For Granted, As If Man Was Intended To Live On Terms Of Friendly Intercourse With The Rest Of Creation Instead Of Huddling In Isolation On The Fourteenth Floor Of An Apartment House In A City Where Animals Occurred Behind Bars In The Zoo.

Growing Up Human Is Uniquely A Matter Of Social Relations Rather Than Biology. What We Learn From Connections Within The Family Takes The Place Of Instincts That Program The Behavior Of Animals; Which Raises The Question, How Good Are These Connections?

Television. It Has Changed The Way That We Perceive The World Out There, And Though We Know That - Have Indeed Been Bombarded With Analyses On The Consequences For Society, For The Family, And For Individual Psychology - I Don't Believe That We Have Yet Begun To Appreciate The Reach Of Its Subliminal Effects, Of What We Might Call 'the Slow Viruses.' They Not Only Get Into Our Ways Of Seeing, They Pervade The Ways In Which We Weave Our Perceptions Together Into Patterns That Support And Explain Our Thinking And Our Doing And Both Direct And Hinder Various Kinds Of Relationships.

We Older Women Who Know We Aren't Heroines Can Offer Our Younger Sisters, At The Very Least, An Honest Report Of What We Have Learned And How We Have Grown.