The Great Fracturing of Our Violent Wholeness

This is a sequel to the well loved piece, Stars, Tentacles, and Healing Embrace. It is recommended to read the first installment prior to this one.I have been struggling latelywith my own sense of connection, and with aspects of my own humanity, and with how these things relate.When I was a child, I awoke one night wrapped in my blanket and sheet. I had tossed and turned and was wrapped so tightly I thought I would never escape.I enjoy the wholeness of a long embrace.I yearn for affection of any kind. I yearn for connection.I yearn to be seen and accepted for who I am, without the constraints of expectations that have been placed upon me either by society or by those closest to me, or at least by what I thought was expected of me.I wish, like any other creature, to be wild. I'm a being of starlight, as we all are, and I want to shine.Writing in her journals during her youth, Virginia Woolf mused, "I think I see for a moment how our minds are all threaded together – how any live mind…