Today, I walk as spirit. While the rain makes its many varied drops and splooshes and pitter patters and splats... I encounter a great many people in the forest—grateful that the human people are safely tucked away in their boxes and they have the freedom to exist as they please. My presence disturbs them, tainted as it is by my humanity. Perhaps they will as yet forgive me for it. Protected from the rain for a moment, I pause under a tree. I feel it steady above me + the gr
