title: On The Wings Of Angels: 144 Illuminations Of Soul
author:  Angel Leigh 
description: The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful. ~ Alan Cohen I felt that the only way to write this book was to be naked. I know that I may be criticized for this. All the times of pretending or hiding what was and the fear of rejection kept my secrets in silent suffering throughout the years. I hope that my raw honesty will help some to feel, and explore their paths, and perhaps to find the courage to face their own truths also. The truth sets me free.
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  # FIRST ITERATION  
  
  
  The Angel of Goliad
  
  
  
  
  
  COMPOSITE IMAGE, OPTICALLY encoded by escort-craft of the trans-Channel
  airship _Lord Brunel_ : aerial view of suburban Cherbourg, October 14, 1905.
  
  
  
  
  
  A villa, a garden, a balcony.
  
  
  
  
  
  Erase the balcony’s wrought-iron curves, exposing a bath-chair and its
  occupant. Reflected sunset glints from the nickel-plate of the chair’s wheel-
  spokes.
  
  
  
  
  
  The occupant, owner of the villa, rests her arthritic hands upon fabric woven
  by a Jacquard loom.
  
  
  
  
  
  These hands consist of tendons, tissue, jointed bone. Through quiet processes
  of time and information, threads within the human cells have woven themselves
  into a woman.
  
  
  
  
  
  Her name is Sybil Gerard.
  
  
  
  
  
  Below her, in a neglected formal garden, leafless vines lace wooden trellises
  on whitewashed, flaking walls. From the open windows of her sickroom, a warm
  draft stirs the loose white hair at her neck, bringing scents of coal-smoke,
  jasmine, opium.
  
  
  
  
  
  Her attention is fixed upon the sky, 