I have just spent countless minutes watching a potter at work. This is a man who takes water and earth and works them together on a spinning wheel to make beautiful shapes and vessels. It is hypnotizing, the movement of his hands, the way a lump of clay can seem to dance as it changes form. It is beautiful.
The potter in question is my newest assignment. His name is Jesse Blanchard, and tomorrow he will meet a woman who can help him.
Unlike Lamarr, there is very little light around Jesse. He is not a bright spirit shining through a dark exterior. Jesse is simply dark. His wife died years ago, and since her death he has been alone. He wears his unhappiness like a cloak, keeping it between himself and others. He has money, but nothing that he wishes to buy,[1] and he has no faith to lift his spirits. To look at him is much like looking into a cloud of smoke.
But he creates, in every spare moment of his day, he creates, and it is so beautiful.
Some of you may say that the humans’ obsession with their own creations brings them deeper into darkness, and maybe that is true in some cases. But after all, is not Our Father obsessed with his Creation? And the making of beautiful things is a noble art, especially if it brings light to others.
Jesse’s case is not quite as simple as Lamarr’s was. (Lamarr and Tammy are doing well, by the way—they will be going on their second date[2] this week.) For Lamarr, it was determined long ago that he and she would be the closest match, and given that they were in the same city and of the same age, it was an easy pairing to orchestrate. Most people, however, have several different possibilities when it comes to love. There are some that will be easier, and there are some that will require some work to maintain, and of course it always comes down to the humans’ choice.
Danit tells me that to determine these matches, we must learn to read the Choice Web. She has shown a manifestation of a piece of it to me, and it is wildly complicated. Every choice that the humans make has its consequences, and those consequences reflect onto others and back onto themselves, which then cause them to make more choices, and all of their options spiral off from one another in a glorious tangle of good and bad. We can only very gently tug those strands, trying to get the humans to spread a bit more good and a bit less bad.
At any rate, Jesse’s case is provisional. The woman who is coming to him tomorrow, Ramona Bishop, may be the right person for him, but she may not. Like him, Ramona needs something to pull her out of the shadows—something or someone. My job is to turn their minds toward one another and observe how they react. If further intervention is deemed worthwhile or necessary, it will be my job.
I am very excited to work with them! It is an opportunity to bring light to two people who sorely need it. But my meditation is over, and I must go to meet Ramona. More tomorrow!
[1] Money is something that the humans exchange for other things. It is a very complicated system, and the humans take it very seriously—much of their lives is spent in pursuit of it, though it is merely a means of getting something else.
[2] A date is a meeting between two people for the purpose of discovering if they are romantically compatible.