Air

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She spreads great wings and a tailfeather fan, and crosses a threshold made only of air.


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A Web Across the Sky

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work that fits the feel of the day in this place, with more storms already in the offing. It's a solitaire built around a Skystone, one webbed by the earth that simultaneously evokes the lightning's web, a powerful portal that ushers in the rain beneath a crackling sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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Elusive

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The real threshold is the space between her and me, the space between me and the world.


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Friday Feature: Checkerboarded Clouds and Spiderweb Snows

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's our last Friday Feature of April, one that turns out to be especially apt for this particular morning here in this place. It's a checkerboard that crisscrosses seasons and weather, creating a world's web of snow and earth and catkins waiting to turn green.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.  



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The Song of the Storm

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Echo finds voice, and together they sing, in harmony, the song of the storm.



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#TBT: Spinning Visions, Weaving Dreams

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It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, and today, it's a trip back in time only six short weeks, to a work commissioned by a dear friend. Her request and Wings's inspired skill produced a pair of unique, highly stylized, spirit-infused "dreamcatchers," all in beautiful shades of blue and black and silver.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. These are obviously one of a kind, but if the general style speaks to your spirit, Wings can create a version uniquely your own (and he has the square cabs in a half-dozen different brightly-colored stones); simply inquire via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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Work

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World requires work, especially of women — even those who rule the skies.



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Life, In Its Own Good Time

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a small and familiar spirit, one that has been part of Wings's inventory for a time now. She has much to teach us, with varying lessons drawn from different indigenous traditions, but they all link up in one way: They all counsel a life well-lived — in part, by heeding the truth that some things can only happen in their own good time.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.



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The Glow of Many Suns

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The lines demand a reckoning, but do not come empty-handed; they bear the gifts of light and shadow, of life, of the glow of many suns.



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Indigenous Arts: Weaving Webs and Guarding Gates, Catching Dreams and Healing Spirits

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's this week's entry in our series on Indigenous Arts. Today, we explore the catching of dreams, and the spirits who make it possible.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Several of the works depicted (and the photo series linked at the bottom) remain available for purchase. However, if one of the sold items speaks to you, Wings can create a version uniquely your own; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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The Gate

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No doors, no bars, no destination, nor even proof of existence . . . beyond the light of the sun dog's halo, his moccasins set afire by the glow of his spirit.



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Monday Photo Meditation: A Season of Small Spirits

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a photo meditation for this season, one that seems enervating and disempowering, but should instead be a celebration of the work of small spirits. It's a lesson for me, delivered by Grandmother Spider, but one we all know fundamentally, one we know we should center rather than ignore.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, the photo remains available for purchase in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. Also as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciate.


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Heralds

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The hawks have returned, and I know that he has sent them from beyond the thresholds, holders and heralds of his spirit.



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The Light of a New Day

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of Wings's sunlit works. It's also a pair of his most modestly priced pieces, thanks to the unusual material from which they're made, but they hold a powerful spirit nonetheless in the form of the light itself. 

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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Before and After

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Life may be hoop, and circle, and infinite path, but it is an always, without end, before and after.




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In the Light, Even In the Storm

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's the companion piece to Wednesday's masterwork, a part of Wings's newest series, The Light Collection. This series has immediately become one of my all-time favorites among his entire body of work, for reasons of both symbol and substance.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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Love

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In this moment between worlds, before the dawn, before they are lost to light of day, they whisper, a near-silent echo across the interstices,

Love.

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Friday Feature: A Warming Light and the Promise of Summer

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It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, and today, we resume our look at the pottery of Camille Bernal with an iconic design that seems to embody the light. It's her Art Deco-style vase wrought in the shape of a traditional olla, in warm welcoming shades and a sensuous shape.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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Metamorphosis

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Beneath white wand and purple crystal, transformed . . . metamorphosis into magic, now traveling the world of dreams.

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#Throwback Thursday: The Light That Is Our Spirit, Our Individual and Collective Sense of Self

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It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, and this week, we go back a decade or so to one of Wings's old signature series. It's a symbol of healing, of identity, of creativity, of self — and in this instance, a chance to hold a little of the light and the spirit of the sun in one's hand.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This piece sold many years ago, of course, but if its imagery speaks to you, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can make a version uniquely your own. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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Veil

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They are the filter that permits the soul to look upon the night, to see, to live, to survive.



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Dancing With the Spirit of the Light

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all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's Wings's latest masterwork, completed only an hour or so ago. It's a piece of breathtaking beauty and extraordinary power and spirit, one that has been in the works for some time, and I was privileged to have a small role in its creation. The dedication at the end was all Wings's own idea, and reveals much about the loss of light here right now.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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Grief

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All paths eventually converge upon the threshold, where the shadows are no longer a lie, and grief is gone.



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Indigenous Arts: Spirit as Symbol and Symbol as Spirit

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's this week's edition of our series on Indigenous Arts. Today, we continue with the month's theme of Native symbols as they appear in Native art — this time, by way of representations of the spirits (around here, known as katsinam, or kachinas). Lilith puts in an appearance, too (and, yes, it fits).

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Some of the works featured in today's post have already sold, but most remain available for purchase; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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Mourning

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Winter weeps, small tears that drop from branch to branch, mourning for those who, with it, will not see summer come.



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Monday Photo Meditation: Spirits of Stone and Light

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a photo meditation for a snowy Monday morning in mourning. It's an image that reminds us that we no lock on love or loss, nor on obligation; the spirits here bear witness as they have done since the time before time, and will still be doing so in their many forms and faces long after we are gone, as well.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, the photo remains available for purchase in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. Also as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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Griffin's World

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Otherworldly, this dawning of Griffin's world . . . Griffin's will in this world — in spirit, his world still.




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We buried our boy today.

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A couple of days ago, as I was walking out to the studio, a mourning cloak danced past me on the breeze, headed eastward, and I felt something cold clutch at my heart. They are aptly named, these butterflies: They tend to appear when death is at the door, even if we don't know it yet.

I shook it off. Two of the horses had been in full laminitis flare for months; all three of the dogs had fought off a nasty reaction to something in the last couple of weeks. Griffin's CVS had just flared again, but that's by now an annual occurrence at this time of year, and there's little for it but time. He's always bounced back just fine, and there was no reason to think this would be any different.

It was different.

At five o'clock yesterday evening, with snow falling softly outside, our boy walked on, over the threshold and on along that western road to The Interstices and beyond, to the place where the Thunderbird flies, to a place where we cannot yet follow, and my heart is broken into too many pieces ever to be repaired.

I don't think I can make anyone understand. You have experienced this sort of relationship with another being, or you haven't, and if it's the latter, nothing I say will make the slightest bit of sense. I have never had such a one before, nor will I again; Griffin was entirely one of a kind, and there is no succeeding that.

Sacred Directions, Sacred Hoop, Sacred Space

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's Wings's latest, completed late Thursday. The design seems prescient now, in light of recent events here. We're both feeling as though we've been swept into a vortex with no warning, and anything that orients us back to the sacred hoop of our world and its directions is welcome right now.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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The Guide

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Now, she will be his guide, in a place where I cannot go with him.

If we are lucky, he will someday walk with us again

In dreams and visions

Until the day we join him there.

Note: There will be no fundraising post tonight, nor for at least the next four days. I know most will never understand this, but we have lost our guide tonight, and we are in mourning in its purest form.


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This boy needs some help.

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Update:  He's gone. 5:00 PM MDT. More later. My heart and spirit are gone with him.

Folks, whatever ya got, my boy needs it.

I hate spring. Absolutely hate it. The winds are enough for me to despise it with every fiber of my being, because they are so incredibly destructive to my own body. But what it does to the animals is so much worse. It's colic and founder season for the horses.

For Griffin, it's CVS season. 

No, that's not the drug chain. It's short for Canine Vestibular Syndrome, a mostly idiopathic (save age, and, in his case, a TBI seven years ago) condition in which the juncture at which a dog's brain and inner ear become grossly inflamed, and it creates a particularly nasty form of vertigo. When you have the kind of rapid-fire changes in barometric pressure we've had the last few days (to say nothing of today, which has been the worst yet), it flattens him. He can't walk; he staggers, drops, falls. He has clonus in his limbs. The vertigo causes such nausea that he can't eat and mostly can't drink water, either, leading to dehydration. I'm reduced to crouching on the floor, ankle be damned, and syringing him with Pedialyte. I've been dealing with this for days, but today has been nonstop. And the longer the weather stays a mess, the longer he won't be able to eat, and it just becomes a vicious cycle, with no fuel in his system to help fight the inflammation.

And the superstitious side of me is damning myself for causing it, because in trying to help someone else's dog, I invoked this goddamn thing as a possibility, and now he's paying for it. Again. This is either the third or fourth spring in a row that he's dealt with this, and it's a bad one this time around.

So I'm begging: prayers, good vibes, whatever magical mystery stuff ya got goin', send some of it his way. He's been my soulmate for more than fifteen years now. We need Griffin, and he needs to be healthy again.

Thanks. 


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A Map Drawn By the Spirits

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's the original collection in miniature that inspired a new addition this past Wednesday. Today, it's a pair of elementally interstitial works from Wings's one-man show a couple of years ago, two complementary pieces that coordinate but also stand on their own.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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The Calm Before the Storm

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Father Sun whispers, low and gentle, "Fear not, for the storm is not my foe; it is my friend, without whom I could not bring you this beauty."




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Less than $2K from the half-way point!

Yes! We're now less than $2K to the halfway point for this stage of our home-building project! Which is good, considering that we may break ground in as little as a week, if the foundation blueprints are done and the weather cooperates (and the latter is probably the iffiest part of it right now). The latest arrival is the list of vigas: dimensions, including diameter and length. There's a place where Wings can cut them himself, and in between planning for the first round of irrigation, changing horses' clogs, trying to get Griffin on his feet, and all the usual chores that accompany home, land, gallery, and his creative processes, he (probably with one of the guys) will be heading up there to get them. Speaking of the creative process, and the gallery, it will help us tremendously to have folks share the link to Wings's Web site, too; sales are crucial right now.

In the meantime, the usual drill still holds: Please continue to share the link to our YouCaring page, using the widgets and/or the link on the page itself. Please also spread around the widget code found in the lower right-hand corner of the page; that will give you the image shown above, complete with running total. Profound thanks to everyone who has given us a hand thus far, with special thanks today to our latest donor.

Tonight and tomorrow are going to be spent catching up on thank-yous and other correspondence, and trying to run our horse vet to ground to get specific instructions needed for Shade's hooves. This weekend will involve clogging both horses and catching up on a thousand and one things, always assuming I haven't overdone it on the foot today and can actually function again tomorrow. If I haven't replied to you yet, I will; never fear. I'm just overwhelmed right now.



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Friday Feature: A World In Motion

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's our Friday Feature for a week in which we've explored themes of guidance and direction, of mapping and movement and a world in motion. Today, it's Wings's personal favorite among the works of his niece, and it's one that speaks to me of elemental powers, of movement through the seasons, of forward motion as we journey around the hoop.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed, so shares of the site links are much appreciated.


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Dom, Five Years Gone

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Lilith was four short days ago. Now it's Dom.

She left us longer ago, in 2011. I'd been in Washington for over a month, and we didn't even know she was ill. Two weeks after my return, she was gone. Cancer, throughout her whole little body, with an especially large tumor suddenly distending her stomach. She was, as near as anyone could tell, roughly eleven and a half, making her the second-oldest of our pack at that time. While I was gone, she'd learn to ride on the back of the ATV with Wings, and that is his fondest memory of her.

Like all the rest, she'd had a hard life, too: used as a bait dog; left front leg broken and left unrepaired for who knows how long, then a botched surgical attempt at repairing it that was already infected by the time she found her way to me. She was by turns skittish and fierce, and fiercely independent, and wanted nothing more than to take up space on your lap (or shove you out of bed). I've never known such a small dog to take up so much space, much more than any of the large ones. 

She took up a lot of space in our hearts, too. It's hard now to recall exactly how huge the void was in this place when morning rolled around on April 15th of that year. Harder still to believe that it's been five years already. Her name was officially Domina, the feminine of Domino for her little half-mask, but also for the Latin used for the feminine of "teacher" or "master." She was a beta girl, or maybe even gamma or delta, but she could alpha right up when she damn well felt like it; she gave orders, and she usually got her way. Her name fast became Dommy, Dommers, Dom-Dom, or just Dom for short. 

She left us in my arms, on my lap, about 10:42 PM on the night of the 14th. It was bitterly cold that year, so we wrapped her in a blanket, but we had to leave her burial for morning, and the ground was unbelievably hard for mid-April, but Wings managed it. She is with Lilith and Major, beneath the big blue spruce by the garden, and in a little while, I'll limp my way outside to set some cedar on her resting place.

The Saturday after she left us, I was going in and out to shake the rugs. I took one inside, went out with another, and saw that something had changed: At the foot of the stairs there was a little divot in the earth that had been empty a moment before. Now, it contained a sherd of ancient pottery, the old black-on-white that predates the micaceous variety in this area. The earth here still tosses them up periodically, random gifts of the spirits, but not on the lawn where grass covers everything. I know, rationally, that a magpie dropped it: a black and white bird with a black and white sherd for a black and white dog. I still think Dom arranged it, and the sherd is still in my medicine bag.

Thank you, little Dom-Dom Girl. We love you.

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Honeysuckle Bird

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Redbird will stay until the honeysuckle trumpets stir and stretch, birth themselves into graceful flutes . . . consumed with an inner fire that dresses them in scarlet robes to match his own.




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Miracles and Setbacks

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See that up there? That was what we spent the afternoon doing. We spent the morning holding horses for X-rays.

Yes, ankle and all. I torqued it again, too, but good. Now I'm sitting with it back up again, hideously uncomfortably. But shit's gotta get done.

Today was marked by miracles and setbacks, expensive ones.

First off, Griffin's in bad shape. It'll pass, but the longer it takes, the longer his condition continues like this, and everything's working against everything else. He's in the throes of his annual spring CVS flare, and unless and until the promised storm hits, either tomorrow night or Saturday, he'll get no relief. He can barely stand, much less walk; he hasn't been able to eat for more than 48 hours; he's weak, dizzy, and absolutely exhausted. And so am I, trying to cope.

Then there are Cree and Shade. The miracle continues to be Cree, overall, although she wasn't doing well this morning. The setback (in addition to Grif) is Shade.

The details are all over the jump, along with today's request for shares.

#TBT: Mapping Secret Places and Sacred Spaces

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It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, and today, it's a trip back in time about five years, to a work that was simultaneously incredibly simple and extraordinarily complex. It featured a truly fabulous stone, Damele turquoise in shades of jade and emerald, a gorgeous representation of Grandmother Turtle's shell that formed our world, set atop a band of spare imagery and deep and hidden secrets.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. The stone obviously cannot be replicated, but if the style and symbolism speak to you, Wings can create a version uniquely your own, simply inquire via the site's Contact form. And, as always, sales are much needed (hoo-boy, especially today), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

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The Dawn Hawk

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She springs onto the morning wind and flies into the light.



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