Humans are mostly water -electricity run through meat -bounded by our skin;our largest organdivides the sea within us from the air outside,holds together our private oceans.Skin is our primal boundaryour primary boundary.Humans are mammalswe grow in someone else’s skinand require the intimacyof skin-to-skin contactas infants or else we spendour childhood, our learning-to-personhoodunable to trust other humans.Biologically, we requirethe physical manifestation of the boundarybetween the self and others.Our infancy is learningthat we are a person apartfrom our mothers -discovering “I” and how to meet itsdemands, - then, in childhood,learning that others’“I” is as powerful and deep as our own -learning empathy.Boundary is definitionby binary; you can’t have yeswithout no“that” is also “not that”“me” is “not me”