Learning to walk

The factors which come together in the coniunctio are conceived as opposites, either confronting one another in enmity or attracting one another in love.

-Carl Jung

I could not make any playdates for my daughter. A single, semi-foreign-semi-local woman, I fitted in no context, and was something like a tame threat, treated kindly, but at a distance. We were different: there was no man around us. She and I cannot be enough for an authentic family, we were not even a trio, let alone a quartet, just a seesaw of two, one big one small so the balance was never proper. We had transmuted from a family, just before – a moment ago, it seemed, we were three, a steady tripod, a firm three-legged stool, a triangle that reaches up to the Heavens and