My story is about reciprocity—if we care for our environment it cares back, and vice versa. It is about stretching milliseconds of impulse control in order to provide a future. It is about a challenge to become a bigger person after looking at a comic book. It is about how the universe calls out to us, and whether we choose to listen. It is about getting under someone’s skin by creating sugar to help the medicine go down. It is a story about the ways humor, beauty and love can root us in reality and transcendence. – Edie Everette