Of course, beginnings are slow and birth is painful. But the alternative, stasis, gradually, true, sometimes very gradually, chokes more and more the will to experience more than the surface of things.

The urge to put down the heavy weight of thought is strong.

Long sleep. Strong sun with cooling waves. Delicious food to satisfy the many cravings. And love's desires that can only be soothed by the hard won ways of the heart's companion.This knowledge did not come overnight. Word for word, touch for touch, answered only over many years.

Sometimes the conversations continued through the night- only to be interrupted by the first light of dawn breaking through the space and time of night. (2/22/94)