I want to recognize each step as I take and each person I see as potential for magic and growth to occur, be it helping out by saying the right word someone needs to hear, or divine intervention, or being the one helped. I want each day and each moment to be a gift appreciated.

Whew. I have had a week to recover from my Saturday morning at the BodyWorlds exhibit at ScienceWorld, so I feel ready to talk about it.

I cant say I was dying to go in the first place, I just kind of found myself drawn there. In fact I was sort of frightened that it would be really grotesque. I was surprised that when I entered the exhibit, my immediate experience was relief; the bodies didn't seem real at all, they seemed like they were made of resin or plastic or some synthetic substance. My mind had a hard time reconciling the information it was receiving: what I was looking at had, at one time, been living, breathing humans each one with a set of stories, a network of other people who loved them and each one with their own voice.