Bound Feet

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    American families, however, without exception, experience a double message in our society, one that claims a commitment to families and stresses the importance of raising bright, stable, productive citizens, yet remains so bound by an ideal of “rugged individualism” that parents receive little support in their task from the public or private sectors.
    Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)

    The stairway is not
    a thing of gleaming strands
    a radiant evanescence
    for angels’ feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
    touch the stone.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)