In the midst of grass

Detail from The Nativity, by Jacques Daret, about 1468

The Prado, Madrid

Men and women are born from a deep need of the earth to care for itself in new ways.

I can feel that care as a vibration within myself; and often I call it “sensation,” because this is the word I have been given by my language. 

The word derives from the Latin word sensus, which means …