Make It So

263.

I wake with a renewed vitality. A fifteen hour nap will do that. Even the palsy that has compromised my right arm and leg seems to be more manageable today. In preforming my daily physical therapy I recall Mustang's words to me just prior to the debrief. "You do realize that over the course of the last two days, under enormous stress and operating on emergency power, you twice used you right arm?"

No, I replied, I do not specifically recall, but in retrospect I must have. Interesting, we both agreed.

"What do you make if it?" I asked.

"Sparing you the lengthy medical analysis, the hypothesis is that you are experiencing an accelerated neural growth phase as we all hoped you would. It appears that it is taking place sooner than we expected and should be welcomed and appreciated as a synthesis of mind, matter and sheer will."

I am unsure of my proper response to this, if indeed there is one. "Alright, what then is our current prognosis and plan of attack, Doctor?"

"I think you know," she cryptically teases.

The expected pause in our dialogue gave my tired brain a second or two to blend some combination of humility, gratitude and hope into an appropriate comeback.

"Have faith in the system, follow the advice of the professionals and specialists, do the therapy, and…"

"And…"

I am stumped. The blank I draw is whiter than fresh snow on a frozen lake.

Defeated in the game of patient/doctor Q&A, I make a face indicating without words that I don't know.

"Often you use use as a mantra an illustration of the power of movement, the magical focus of staying present in the moment of greatest doubt or highest consciousness; three universal words that encapsulate our answers to the greatest questions of the cosmos," she says smiling and without any underling agenda other than sharing her positive agency. She smiles.

I smile.

"Continue your practice," She affirms.

Keeping my grin at the sharing of this profound truth I quote to her a synopsis of  'The Meaning of Peanuts," a wonderfully enriching article I had just read about the longest running story of all-time as told through the eyes of one Mr. Charlie Brown.

"Life can be hard,
perseverance is required,
joy is fleeting but attainable and
imagination is essential."

Mustang says, "Let us make it so."