Sometimes we think of healing as an absolute. It is dramatic and permanant.  I believe in this kind of healing.  Miracles of this kind exist.  However at this stage in my physical body’s life, and with two or three chronic conditions, I am exploring another kind of healing, another kind of miracle, smaller perhaps but just as much a gift from God.  Exile, the work above, is about feeling surrounded by things I used to do and wanting to continue to do them, but being limited.  There is still life in me.  How do I get beyond the stiff presence my body presents?  I am learning how.  Every learning is a gift. Every learning is a miracle that allows me out of exile. 

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The work above is a graphic composition completed summer of 2011, and part of a series.