To whom it may concern,

Ganesha the remover of obstacles, is part elephant and is worshipped by many people around the world. The Sphinx has the body of a lion, the head of a human, and the wings of an eagle, and has served as a gatekeeper between worlds for thousands of years. The cyborg is part human, part machine, but greater than both. They are ambiguous things that exist at the threshold, and are so important to us that if Ganesha and sphinxes and cyborgs did not exist, we would have to invent them. Maybe we did.

There are boundaries that run down the middle of each of us, and sometimes it feels like they will tear us apart. There is no trick to it, we just have to take the pain. We are strange creatures, even to ourselves, who defy any category.  Courage, endurance, beauty, I look at you and see these human things, but when I look closer I see that there is no need to invent anything, I see the mosaic of the soul, the liminal being, part human, part something more.

As always,

Matthew Cameron