Those words were spoken by Paikea the young girl in the film Whale Rider. She speaks them after returning to live with her grandparents instead of going to live with her father. I am reminded of her words often when I or another comes back from a time away.
I have been away for several months and now I am back! After several years of left knee bone on bone pain, weakness and knowing that my knee will give out again any time, the time was right for a total knee replacement. The surgery was necessary because of an injury way way back in 1962 which necessitated the removal of the inside left knee cartledge. Over the years the knee grew weaker and weaker.
The surgery was 7/25/11 and one of the best gifts I have ever given myself. Though there is still stiffness and swelling (which can be expected for up to 12 months) my knee is strong, I have my sense of balance back and for the first time in several years I am sleeping the night through. I haven't felt this good overall in a very long time and it feels very good!
October 28 through November 5 I basked in the sun, sand and the Caribbean near Puerto Morelos, Quintanaa Roo, Mexico. It is there that I began to sleep the night through and it is there where I rested and refreshed and renewed warmed by the sun, other women on this "goddess trip" and took time to take time out to just "be."
Yes, Paka, I'm back and it is very good!
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