During a recent storm, our house electricity vanished. Ignorant, I lay in bed sound asleep. If it hadn't been for the telephone lady, I would have slept right through the storm, but she felt compelled to ring and tell me if she was "on" or "off."
After she woke me twice, the storm intruded. Lightning flashed outside my bedroom window and I heard the thunder's responding roar.
Hoping to calm myself back to sleep, I lay still and watched my breath: in, out, in, out.
Then I heard a tiny sound inside my body: bip, bip, bip, bip.
Oh no, it's my heart bipping!
My mind kicked into rapid gear: I'm just an animal, like a deer or a bear, human but an animal. And like us all, I'm just one "bip" away from death.
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