Why Now

I am walking in midtown Atlanta, December 2009. I see an old woman in a wheelchair who seems to be having trouble up ahead. Without a thought, I come up behind her and ask: "May I?" She says, "Oh, thank you honey!" and I push her up the street about a block. When we get to her building, I walk around to face her and I say, "Have a good day." As soon as she sees my face, her's brightens with recognition, and she says, "It's you!" I get chills and we both laugh... I rush off to the nearest coffee shop and this is the writing that follows.

Later I would find out that my twin sister, Cat, had done the same thing for the old woman a few days earlier.