Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break. - Marge Piercy

"Before you, the strongest feeling I knew was fear." (Yod, twenty-two: THE PRESENT)

People had gone too far in destroying the earth, and now the earth was diminishing the number of people. (fourteen: BY THE LIGHT OF THE UNYELLOW MOON)

I am very interested in the voluntary families that people create; not just the communes but the informal social webs by which a great many people survive and flourish. A lot of my adult life I have been trying in one form or another to create alternatives to the nuclear family.