good question

If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be? You'd be them.....body, mind, soul.

A friend asked me this question last night and the first person who came to mind was Lucia Rijker. Lucia is an athlete (boxer, to be exact), and an actor, and I think I would like to be her for 24 hours...to feel the power that she feels, to have her drive and focus and ability to work through the pain to reach her goal....amazing human being....wow. There are others as well, Roberta Bondar, my friend Patricia, my grandmother, David Bowie.....an interesting query, to be sure.

I am in a new place now, even different from where I was this time last week...and no doubt different from where I will be in another 7 days, or even 1. This constant change and expansion is a bit exhausting but ultimately wonderful, and I can only hope that I do not stop noticing it as it happens....I spent too long with my eyes closed, and now all I want to do is take it all in. At times I may see too much, but that is the trade-off, isn't it?

(back to last night...as my friend and I were walking towards my motorcycle, we passed a 70's era BMW...all flat-black paint and gold pinstripes and cafe-racer style- it stopped me in my tracks and made me a little bit hot...and I realized that a beautiful bike and a beautiful woman have a similar effect on me...hmmmm.)