My daugher is strikingly beautiful. At one point, while rehearsing for a performance of the Crucible, her director gave her an exercise for showing a character being alert and happy. She should imagine herself as a doctor just going in to tell an anxious patient, 'It's not cancer.'
I heard those words, or a message which added up to them.
There are always 'possibles,' and 'maybes,' and 'look again,' but the answer is still the one which restores one to life--which however routine or conventional, is deep and alluring and full of promise.
Alex
