we’re all forsaking our former forms-
however, every slip-sweet beautiful now is tethered
to the entwined snakes of memory’s web’d pathways.

(swim liminal we shall through life’s watery edges,
and take time and care to trim the hedges)

.forever stretching toward the intangible HOPE of future connection,

“If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.”
— Sherry Turkle

Narcissus, a Greek god, spurned the advances of the goddess Echo (or so one version of the story goes). As she faded away in a lonely spot, her final whispery prayers for vengeance were overheard by the goddess Nemesis. As punishment, Narcissus was doomed to fall in love with his own reflection.

In an effort to meet the educational needs
of its considerable population (550 million and growing), researchers
and computer scientists in India have designed a laptop tha