Bliss
Charles Darwin couldn’t know
unless his wife told him --
somehow I think she didn’t --
he would have called it an adaptation
meant to protect the human species.
He didn’t know about hormones,
the key activating anandamide
(from ananda, Sanskrit for love).
unless his wife told him --
somehow I think she didn’t --
he would have called it an adaptation
meant to protect the human species.
He didn’t know about hormones,
the key activating anandamide
(from ananda, Sanskrit for love).
Every mother who breast feeds her new
baby has a moment of indescribable joy
lifting the child to her breast, feeling
the surge of fullness as a tiny hand
curls on her skin, a tiny mouth grasps,
the weight and warmth of a small body,
now over, not under her heart,
the slurp and swallow, a baby’s purr --
a moment of utter perfection,
intense love, perfect beauty,
an ocean of peace. Pure bliss.
baby has a moment of indescribable joy
lifting the child to her breast, feeling
the surge of fullness as a tiny hand
curls on her skin, a tiny mouth grasps,
the weight and warmth of a small body,
now over, not under her heart,
the slurp and swallow, a baby’s purr --
a moment of utter perfection,
intense love, perfect beauty,
an ocean of peace. Pure bliss.
Maternal Love -- Donna Tuten
Charles Darwin was an English naturalist who established that all species descended over time from common ancestors and introduced the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. He published his theory of evolution in his 1859 book “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.” In 1839 he married his first cousin Emma Wedgewood (the granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) and they had 10 children. (The Darwin-Wedgwood family included several artists and poets, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, and at least 10 Fellows of the Royal Society, the oldest extant learned academy for science.)
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