Chicory: When Care Becomes Possession

Chicory is care that keeps the books.

The weather

Traditional language says possessive love, attention-seeking through service, the parent or partner who gives to bind. Number 6's shadow. Red Chestnut fears for the other; Chicory cannot unhook because the other is proof of self.

Beside the profile

Chicory already lives in this house as a profile: “Care that keeps.” Possessive love, needing to be needed, hurt when the other walks off. Love is not the problem. The weather is love that cannot release. Bach filed it under Over-care for the welfare of others — for those who over-care for the welfare of others. The profile is the door. This essay is a longer walk around the same weather. Neither is a diagnosis, a product, or a treatment plan.

Love that requires an audience of the beloved is a contract.

A takeaway

Give one thing without staying to watch it be received. If that is intolerable, you have the weather. The Name as practice, in the Sound room, is about return without possession. Different tradition, similar human itch.

Readers exploring this theme may also find neighbouring rooms interesting. Similar weather across traditions is not proof that one system explains another.