Touched. We ride a stream of naked neurons, stripped of their sheaths, to the most blissful moments and deepest intimacies of life.
2017 #StevePhelps
*img 1977 #ArthurTress Two men embracing
https://aeon.co/essays/it-takes-neuroscience-and-poetry-to-map-the-tributaries-of-touch

comrades, staunch to each other in their love, and elevated by friendship to the pitch of noblest enthusiasm,

Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship
1915 #EdwardCarpenter
*img Ioläus Table of Contents
https://archive.org/details/iolausanthology00carpiala