Woman told Heart she has cultivated a habit of living
in her head to avoid the pain she felt in her heart.

Heart asked Woman if that has worked for her.
Woman said, “No, it was merely a distraction.”

Heart asked Guardian, “Who told her to do this?”
Guardian replied, “I did.”

Heart asked Guardian, “Why did you guide her this way?”
Guardian told them both, “It was too much for her as a child.

She felt without a home— on her own.” Heart said, “Her heart did hurt, but no deeper than her strength and courage.”

Woman told Heart and Guardian of her vision living
in the moment, of feeling at home rather than longing

For home, of belonging on land, on Earth. She said
this was her way to wisdom.

Guardian told Woman she spoke well for herself, agreed to drop his guard, set her free to walk the Earth, to be at home.

Heart told Woman her heart was her home— as wide
— as deep as the whole Earth.

Woman asked them both if she could carry paper and pen where she went as medicine as well as clover

(The luck to be happy), sage (the remembrance of breath), jasmine (the tenderness of all sentient beings) and

Fennel (the taste of the wild) along with her. Writing had
been her home, and plants would help her heal.

Guardian told Woman this would be a fine way to remember and honor the Earth as home.

Heart said Woman’s pen would be her golden string, would allow her to circumnavigate the Earth

Her beautiful home— happiness, health,
love, and freshness.