as we told each other the greatest things we could think to share we could all tell the greatest things we held within ourselves, strength attitude illness recovery friends mom loss life grandma love- we know, now, what word the center of our being holds- we had thought of each other as creatures that spun with the world around the point that is our own being everyone else a nameless, faceless being that turns and leaves in orbit with no center of gravity, no word inscribed on their hearts that kept them grounded to this earth but we were wrong. the world spun, and we were all still there together.