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We each live on a shifting spectrum of needfulness. Sometimes we feel strong: we can handle anything. Low on the scale. We break a leg, we go to the high side of the scale—till we learn to use our crutches. We are blinded, or have Downs syndrome, we are toward the high end. Here, subtly, that shifts as we discover others need our sensitive hearing, touching, loving. As Sara Hendren says, “We might make friends with that.” I hear her statement two ways: We can recognize needfulness as essential to one’s humanity and as running both ways; we might use our vulnerable likeness as the best way to make friends with others. I also begin to learn that finding my needfulness is necessary to finding myself.

:- Doug.