Constellation of Caring

Tim’s Photo of the Whirlpool Galaxay

I like the word the constellation.  It conjures imaginings of the night sky:  vast, wondrous, mysterious manifestations of light that draw “me” out of “my self”.  Gazing inward and upward I experience being beyond knowing.  Out there alone together, together alone. Yes, another metaphor is coming on. I am part of a constellation of caring as family member, friend, body worker and human being.  We shine alone and together in a myriad of different ways, intimate and distant, radiant and dim.

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