Vladimir "Well? Shall we go?" Estragon "Yes, let's go." (They do not move) - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Act 2 Have you ever experienced such a series of uncanny delays and standstills that, as much as you try to move forward, unsettling obstacles keep leaping in your way bringing you to a screeching halt and the next thing you realize is that you are suspended, hanging upside down and forced to look at the world in a completely different way? Pretty much the whole of

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. - Marianne Williamson As the cicadas emerge from the ground, they crack open their shells and transform: growing wings and creating, en masse, the loudest music found in nature. Heightening our memories of many front porch evenings (I miss you, Australia!), they sound their mating call from their guts. Suddenly, a light bu