I am more than the sum of my experiences. I have many labels: wife, mother, lesbian, seeker of the light, Nana, trouble shooter, employee, incest survivor, exwife, friend, animal lover, artist, gardener, poet, water spirit, translator, and bridge for the dying. Above all, I am a spark of lifeforce, entwined with every other living thing, a part of everything separated only by this skin that I wear.