Zelligg

If I am what I've known, then this biography must grow in installments:

I've encountered the death of trust; unexpectedly, any aspect of relationship can change forever, if one is paying attention: maybe that's why so many people seem so blithe and oblivious...their very considered choice.

I must have not been paying attention to how much my world is vulnerable if I'm not in charge, taking responsibility.

I've met new aspects of my self, my ability to make something that has never before existed, and I love those.

I've felt the pain upon the pain of what has come to stay; that pain is the pain of the absence of compassion in one of the same species.

I've looked into the eyes of some and seen no third dimension; I've listened too and confirmed. I know I am in danger when such as these access can access me.

I saw the surface of the sea from beneath it.

With my nose to theirs, I've inhaled and exhaled with my cat and my dog and come away feeling some deep radiant joy, unavailable to my experience, any other way.

I've seen how cold water looks different than warm water, when they encounter.

I broke a tiny branch, about three inches long, climbing an apple tree. Feeling sorry, I splinted it with masking tape. Twenty years later, it had become a main branch of the tree and I was proud.

I've felt the tightness headache of altitude sickness abate by stepping back down as little as eight feet.

I had a beautiful black jacket, the fabric so fine-woven it looked as if it were melting. I took particular care for the wrist-level sleeve black sequins, emblazoned embroidery and diamond-shaped beads that dangled, subtly.
I entered the children's psychiatric hospital unit to work with the kids wearing the jacket. One particularly impish, charming small boy who had been distant, rushed to me, grabbed my hand, let his head fall back, gazing up at me adoringly. I was so pleased he had reached out and looked back down at his lively face; between his teeth was a diamond-shaped black bead.
( I still have it in my collection of life's lessons icons)


A friend got a cancer diagnosis and was told shortly, "From the moment you are diagnosed with cancer, you become a survivor."
She responded, "Then why wouldn't it also be true that from the moment of birth, we all become survivors?"