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The Essentials

YOU AND I

There you are in the midst of your unique configuration of props and
players, drawing in these words through your eyes, and here I am, way over
here in another time and place, doing my best to be in communion with
you. Here we sit, you and I, wrapped up in our bodies, smashing to

smithereens the boundaries of time and space.

But we’re not our bodies. We’re not. Our bodies are constantly
changing masses of matter. As a matter of fact, if you’re over 30, as we
speak, your ears are getting bigger, your nose is getting longer, and the
distance is shrinking from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
Frightening, but so. Bodies change. My body has done so dramatically. A
lean 165 pounds now, I used to weigh, and this is the astonishing truth, 7

pounds 8 ounces. We’re not our bodies.