If "ambivalent" means wanting two separate things (Like "ambidexterous" means using both hands), then "polyvalent" could mean wanting several things.
Like the image in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, perhaps our dreams are like fruit on a tree, but to pick one, we must give up the others. For example, to be a good mother, perhaps we must give up our dream of becoming a physicist. To become an artist, perhaps we must let go of our dream to be an author. It's as if grasping one bubble pops them all. But this sets up the belief that multiple avenues or goals of our lives are mutually exclusive, or at least mostly exclusive.
The problem, of course, is that most of this exclusion, or this choice between futures, is self-imposed. Our greatest limitor is ourself, or what we believe others expect from us.
So this blog is dedicated to pursuing all of that which this Bene Jennerit sister wants to be, without self-limitation or conformance to the (self-imposed) expectations of others. This is a blog to chronicle a journey of one soul toward its dreams.
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