How important is touch? -- We can die without it. I recently read A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon. This book both blew my mind and confirmed things I've known in my bones for a long time.

We've all experienced so many different kinds of touch, haven't we...and when it's good there's nothing in the world but heart. I was hugged by a mentor when I was seventeen and feeling tarred with shame.

It was a completely ... selfless embrace, gentle yet containing; confirming. I had never before been held like that.

Must go ... dinner ...

Herc, thank you for that marvelous question