Teaching Love to Love Us.

Preferences, attunement, and responsibility.

The caring for and protection of innocence is the key to our vulnerability.

“We pet Uma (that’s me) like we do the kitties, right? Nice smooth, slow strokes.”

This is me offering instructions to my 4-year-old granddaughter on how I like to be touched, so as not to jump out of my skin from her usual pokey, tickly caresses. Though she is a child, she is no…