Boundaries are KIND

About garden fences, angry birds and kindness

Drawing by Tineke Tammes

Years and years ago a psychologist told me this analogy. (No, actually, he told me two, I’ll leave the second one for later).

Here’s the first one:

‘Imagine this. You’ve got a wonderful front garden. You’ve spent hours designing it. You’ve walked through garden centres. You’ve bought plants and swapped seeds with the neighbours. …