Yestarday...Like a bird, she seemed to have the ability to defy gravity. She acted with the expansiveness that comes from having a wide-ranging, high in-the-sky view of life. Sometimes she reminds me of a Thunderbird, which among Native Americans was a mystical raptor that carried messages between spiritual beings. It's eyes unleashed lightning and its enormous wings beat so hard that they spawned storms. But sometimes, she was more like a nightingale-a small, graceful songbird that sings beautiful, complicated songs at night when no other bird is singing. I admired her versatility, only she could pull off being half-thunderbird and half-