The strangers and I began with light conversation, but it quickly became much deeper as I asked questions and they revealed more about what they were going through. The conversation felt effortless as each question and response gently probed deeper until it was clear they had gone as far as they were comfortable.

In the bright sunshine, I thought next of duality, or how life seemed to be constantly reminding me of two sides of a coin, the flip side of a decision, young and old, sunny and cold, and on and on, causing me to ask are the parts of us separate, even contradictory?