SHE

Born with the Wind

SHE came into this world when the weather changed suddenly. The day before was warm and summery. Her mother wore sandals and a light dress as her mother held the precious life within her. September 21st was another beautiful day where nothing happened until the evening when her mother started to feel those familiar pangs in her stomach and it was time to walk to the birthing home a few streets away from her parents' house. So they walked her over there.

Unlike the first time, the birth happened quickly and at 1:30am on September 22nd, SHE came into the world, wailing and howling. Her father was under the window of the birthing home as in those times and in that country, men weren't allowed into the place where a mother gives birth. He made sure he was being heard though.

"I'll wake everyone up!" He yelled as he paced around during the contraction portion of the event.

The day SHE arrived changed dramatically as if Mother Nature herself was responsible for how SHE came into existence. Her birthday dawned cold, rainy, and quite windy as were all of the days afterwards so when her mother was finally released from the birthing home a few days later, she was brought a change of clothes and a warm coat by her husband and her parents. She couldn't believe the massive change in weather in the span of 12 hours or less. It wasn't like today's crazy fluctuations. This was 1983 and the weather in that part of the world behaved like clockwork for the most part.

But not this day, the day SHE was born. SHE was born with the wind and even her mother told her stories of how the day SHE was born the weather up and shifted. It took her many years to realize how much the wind was tied to her life. SHE would experience the wind blowing in the most unlikely of situations and places. SHE could be in her own backyard or in the middle of a scorching desert and all SHE had to do was step out of the house or car and the wind would blow. Just for her. There would be a gust.

Years later when it became apparent just how much the wind was really a part of her life, SHE wrote a poem called "Child of the Wind":

Earth, Wind, Fire, Water

4 elements that hold our world in harmony

Each touches our lives evenly

Disbursed and gone

But what if one of these elements

Surrounds you every day of your life?

Reminding you of who you are

Born away from the warmth

The child of the wind

Step outside, rain or shine

Street, city, or desert

The wind always blows

Just a little harder

Whispering, telling you secrets

Protecting, comforting

Sovereign of the air

Never alone

Always there, feeling

I was born with the wind

May it never leave me

SHE was born with it following her everywhere. As SHE grew older, SHE learned different things about it and how to be in tuned with nature. In her early 30s, through a spark of divine intervention and knowledge that SHE'd gained over her years, SHE found out something truly magical; SHE could actually control it. From a cold, rainy, and windy night, a soul had etched itself into a vessel and now it was going to show the vessel exactly who SHE was.

"Child of the Wind", Out of the Abyss, written by Olga Pinsky, published August 7, 2008. ©All Rights Reserved.