We separate ourselves from the rest of the living whole at great cost - in loneliness. We spend our lives trying to bridge from lonely human self to lonely human self - to the rest of the living whole. This human need to bridge explains: wives, mothers, lovers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters friends, regions, nations. Bridges cannot be built of money, power or prestige. Just love - for its own sake. Art is a form of this. We are the only animals that make poems, plays, novels, dramas; the only animals that paint, sculpt, dance, sing, compose, worship. All these are bridges.