Guys such as myself start out, somewhere in youth or childhood, and still are at heart, really quite empathic and aesthetic, passionate and caring, grounded and energized – but then social pressures malform us, and we become partial and resentful, fumbly and unsure of ourselves

Though in my case, even earlier on I was robbed of – or more constructively, happened to fail to develop – a basic trust that things will be ok, for me and my family and in the wider worlds

Punctuation embodies and expresses the central emotional and imaginative dynamics of particular ways of being human – it shapes and makes real our soul, our soulfulness, each individual specific (as always) to a particular place, time, culture, social and ecological order