A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Perhaps he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Perhaps he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful." -Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist

Valentine's Day is on the horizon...Why we offer gifts, tokens and words to captivate our "love object".
Take a psychological look at how we connect with others, from our earliest nascent, pre-verbal experiences, and see how this attachment forms a blue print for future romantic connections!
Join me on Feb. 1st and spend a New York hour, between 1-2pm to explore this interesting psychological terrain!
Bonitaj

FANTASY AND LONGING IN POETRY
"Longing is the foundation of the human condition — don’t we all want what we can’t have? Whether it’s the greed that is the cornerstone of a villain or the unrequited love of a star-crossed couple, the hole that a reader sees gnawing away at a character echoes personally.The great irony, of course, is that we expect that missing piece to be the thing that brings happiness — and it rarely is." Jodi Picault