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"You're a girl through birth, a lady through time, and a woman through experience." ~ @vie_31
Helen Fisher's courageous investigations of romantic love -- its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its vital importance to human society -- are informing and transforming the way we understand ourselves.
Fisher describes love as a universal human drive (stronger than the sex drive; stronger than thirst or hunger; stronger perhaps than the will to live), and her many areas of inquiry shed light on timeless human mysteries, like why we choose one partner over another.
My friend May (whose native language is Arabic), has a cat named Bruno, who she has somehow taught to fetch.
Or perhaps Bruno was actually a dog in a previous life and already knew, at some deep level, how to fetch. In any case, this is proof positive that we may have many more skills and talents than what our outward appearance might first suggest.
Fetch Bruno. Fetch!
Kate Messner is an award-winning author whose books for kids have been New York Times Notable, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education Best Books selections.
She believes in nature, art, magic, lake monsters, science, and the power of literacy to change the world. She writes books for people who also believe in those things.
Messner's book The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. was the winner of the 2010 E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers.