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I vibrated. (All right, all right!) BB smoothed. (You always want it the way it is, don’t you?) I smoothed also. (Caught me by surprise, that’s all.) (Well, this next adventure is quiet, nice and quiet. Ready?) Everything is relative, including BB’s idea of quiet. I reached and stretched … CLICK! I am waving gently up and down and bending, flexing … coursing into me from the smallest part of me, which is long and narrow with many tubes running through it, comes my share of the glorious life force, coming from the Whole, the family of which I am a part … and I know how much the Whole needs me and I gladly, joyously serve … as the energy that makes me waver and flex flows past my flat sides … (Wait, that’s just air, wind!) … I take from it the parts needed by the Whole and send it back through the narrow tubes because it is needed … I do this so easily I don’t think of it as work, it’s breathing … it’s what I’m for, to breathe for the Whole as I take ashes from the Whole and spread it out into the energy … my happy exchange … and the other, oh so important, my special shape … my profile, configuration … receives a special signal that the Whole understands, needs, and uses … all I do is receive it and send it on … and I’m happy, supremely happy … with a total knowledge of belonging, performing as I was designed to do … beautiful balance, giving … receiving … security and strength of the Whole … CLICK! BB was beside me. (Gets to you, doesn’t it?) I flickered. (Where was that!) He indicated, and I turned. Very close to me was a leaf, an oak leaf. It was attached by a long stem to a branch. Beyond the branch was the massive tree trunk, solidly dug into the earth. To have passed