What would it look like if my mind burst beyond anything it has known?  I don’t know … because the looking is within the borders of my history.

I have moments of deep connection with other people, moments that I don’t remember being present when I was twenty.  That feels like a bursting, but it still seems to be within the same medium.

As I swim in the waters of not knowing, perhaps a few images would help me:

Human beings walk on the ground.  But some of us soar …

Dolphins breathe air into their lungs, just like we do.  Their environment is the water but sometimes they want to know what the air feels like on their skin …

As we walk our streets, we don’t feel the curve of the Earth but we are creatures of this planet.  It is our place to stand.  But then there are astronauts, released from the bonds of the land …

And questions: What happens when we sleep?  When we die?  Is there a lifting beyond our bedrooms to somewhere else?  Are we explorers of the unknown as we close our eyes?

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May we all be taken beyond the usual