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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION

As I place an egg in a stream I am entrusting the possibility of new life into the tumbling

flow that dances fresh and cool over the mossy stones. It is a sunny day in January. I

remove my shoes, roll up my jeans and step barefoot into the icy water. I can barely

keep my balance. My feet are numb and the stones are so slippery. But I cannot hold

onto an overhanging branch or reach into the stream to steady myself on a rock because

I have an egg in each hand that must be protected at all costs.

On the sacred mountain I come upon a cache of plastic water bottles. The elephants

have told me that they are thirsty. I pour water on parched ground, becoming rain. Later,

I learn that at the base of the mountain, at the exact same moment, my friend has also

poured water for the elephants. That afternoon, we watch as the cloudless sky darkens

and rain comes in person.

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