Slight tiredness

"Slight tiredness around the eyes"

 (RantWoman is poking at the possibility that, instead of just tiredness, the parts of this story that weird RantWoman out are supposed to be something fierce and powerful. RantWoman is poking at the idea.)

 A long ago visit to RantWoman’s Meeting by John calvi has kep showing up on RantWoman’s mental shelf for a number of weeks. At the time of the visit, RantWoman had sort of a lot on her plate. RantWoman is fascinated that the only thing John noticed, without being told anything beyond seeing RantWoman's glasses, was “slight tiredness around the eyes.” Sure. Only Rantwoman’s whole life.

 Then RantWoman would try to put the topic away again and soon it would show up again. WTF?

 WTF? Fire photon torpedoes, that’s what. And not just on a Star Trek set.

 Recently RantWoman learned via Facebook of tears in John’s retina , tears bolted back into place by a series of laser blasts. John reported being told this would hardly hurt at all. Reports are WRONG. A few instants of photonic pounding are way powerful, way preferable to ther options or doing nothing, but they are NOT painless.

NOT painless for John also meant triggering a long flashback full of eery human who had misrepresented, failed him; John bravely wrote of all this and that great communion of experiences in common and oceans of empathy played out over a series of Facebook.posts . The words that came to RantWoman: God and John’s gift are bigger than all of that. And it’s John’s turn to need energy flowing back. But one of these days, maybe RantWoman will get to put “slight tiredness around the eyes:” away. Maybe.

 

And we all get to be deeply grateful that John is recovering very well.