living alone and loving it

"Living alone gives us the freedom to nourish the things we love without the constraints of a partner's timetable or his or her conflicting desires"

We're intimate with anything to which we surrender our whole being.

In 1983, at age eighty-one, Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize for her research into the genes of corn.

In an interview she said, "As you look at these things they became part of you. And forget yourself."

Then she spokes of "the real affection" one gets for the pieces of the puzzle that "go together." It struck me that she was using the language of love.

In the moments McClintock surrendered herself to the jumping genes –became part of them- she felt there was nothing missing

in her life.
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