Jan Brett knew how to make “The Mitten” have room. She made the mitten expand to hold all the animals who would show up.
Why do people constrict rather than expand and make room? We seem to make less room the closer others get. To protect intimacy, we constrict in a way that excludes others, rather than make more room. It is the way of our culture.
The urge to restrict and form boundaries is our learned response rather than welcome and expand. I want to learn how to expand and make room.