lifetimes

millie shows me telescoping shapes, like the folded paper people cut outs we did as kids, all the same rough shape and linked together by the hands and feet.  only she showed me telescoping cat shapes first, shaped like her, unfolding from somewhere inside her and then collapsing back into her, glowing gold and becoming one thing, becoming a whole, becoming her.  I didn't understand it until she showed me the same thing with human shapes, unfolding then collapsing into one glowing gold form.

"these are lifetimes.  each one is distinct, each one is unique, but all of your lifetimes, past and future, come together in you. you are a product of all of your lifetimes, inseparable from them."

she then shows me a tapestry with two threads highlighted in gold, coming from different directions and then twirling around each other for a span.

"this is you and I.  we are meant to be.  we wove ourselves together in order to create this connection, this magic."

there is an overwhelming sense of freedom about the tapestry, not a feeling I usually associate with weavings, frankly.  but each thread in this one is completely free to choose its path, to weave alongside another or not, to travel horizontally or not, even to end.  she showed me some that have ended.

"we are all completely free to do whatever we choose.  our destiny is our own.  our path is up to us.  the tapestry just is, encompassing all, with room for any and every choice that has ever or will ever be made."

millie, I cannot express in words how much I love you and what a gift your presence in my life is.