cocoon

"Brandi makes the kick and I'm in a cocoon," he says.

The messages were straightforward and concise, although many elected officials who inhabit Sacramento’s political cocoon tend to be tone-deaf to voices that don’t emanate from large campaign donors and special interests.

So we flew to London, my husband and I, for the first time, and I finally wore my big, loud cocoon coat to the exhibition preview.

In elementary schools — a place many adults presume students are in a relative cocoon of security and well-being — 76% agreed or strongly agreed that they feel safe in school.

“I thought about the emergence from despair as the spider leaves its cocoon and the caution of opening up to possibilities of genuine love,” she explains.