We've undergone a total metamorphosis and it's really been neat to watch. We're getting better and better each week and it seems we've been challenged each week and have met that challenge nicely.

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.

And I feel like the Queen of Water. I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.