| p64 | Oh yes, the heart can be true, the love can be strong and constant, a willing partner to the physical, and still the grace can be absent that provides for an absolute commitment, an absolute availability of care. Physical availability is a precarious notion in a world gone mad. With death at the door, with soldiers knocking, with illness pending, with intruder intent on stealing, the attendance to the babe would never waver. With life at the door, with bills knocking, activities calling, depression lurking, availability of attendance wanes. Attention is split. There is this and there is that. The babe. The world. "This" that requires attention and care and "that" which requires attention and care. There is availability to what is called life - a constancy of split attention. |