Striking bold out the gate (of birth), Cali has shaped every energy she encountered, especially people, who pay forward Cali-Light with authenticity in love and urgency. She is her, as she is us, and we are her. As . . .
Here in this oscillation of time in space,
I am in love first with my friend who holds me
with cupped hands on my shoulders as if I am a singularity of light
because I am.
– “Sky” in I, Animal (2023) . . .
Always a force of nature, permanently etched as “A singularity of light” upon a butterfly placed by her wife, Lin, on the memorial organ donor wall at Lifesharing (.org) in Mission Valley, Cali’s butterfly joins the butterfly of Andy, her late husband. Cali’s Light—inscribed in permanence on a butterfly and all of us.
