Coming to Our Senses

How artists' joy saves the world

My mother savoring my little sister circa 1972-ish

In 1969, my mother had just given birth to me, her second child, and was soon to be pregnant with her third. She has often recounted how difficult it was when people in their social circle would come up to her at a party just to tell her how appalling they found it that she would choose to bring childre…