Aug 24, 2010 00:12
I've met this girl, well girl I think is not the correct word because that almost implies some giggly wibbly wobbly person who yet has to see the world and all that it can do.
Stephanie has run barefoot upon the sands of Maylasia, travelled to distant places and then come back again after after but a few short hours, sung "Nellie the elephant" while keeping someone alive, seen the miracle of birth and seen how even when nothing could be done and that dark spectre passes by that a life can be celebrated and good be drawn from it.
But she is a girl because she has a bright pink rucksac that her daughter chose for her, yet she knows how to load and fire an SA80 and has some very good friends from the days that she wore green.
There are many avenues of experience here, many areas of knowledge, some of which intersect with mine in rather unexpected ways ! You don't expect a girl to turn round and ask if I got hit by an EMP.
And she is still learning, she draws, paints and now the potential of photography.
While she is out there scuba diving and throwing herself out of perfectly good aircraft she does understand the quiet times and talking. There is an intuition that is backed up by an analytical mind, you don't become a Captain by being stupid, the ways and means of where an order was circumvented was just poetry.
There is an amalgam that I haven't seen before. She has a wide dynamic range of experience, lived so many different lives in such a short period of time and here is something else for her, a new challenge taking on a Welshman, why do I think she is more than capable :).