The Mind-Body Divide

Sheila Banani, author of “Life’s Rainbow”—which first appeared in the best-selling anthology When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (1987)—shares in this issue a more recent piece from her book of poems, Taking Chances: Windward in a Time of Butterflies (2016) which can be found at http://www.blurb.com/b/7401700-taking-chances. She is a widely published author. Her career has spanned Bahá’í pioneering (opening the country of Greece at the beginning of the Ten Year Plan), working in urban planning, and teaching sociology at Santa Monica Community College. She makes her
home in Southern California.