Intimacy

and the need for intimacy, is our constant, invisible companion

The need for intimacy in a human life and in a human social life is as foundational as our daily hunger and our never ending thirst, and needs to be met in just the same practical way, every day, just as necessarily and just as frequently: in touch, in conversation, in listening and in seeing, in the back and forth of ideas intimate exchanges that say I am here and you are here …