illusions

I still think it is odd that I was there one day visiting Colleen and talking about nothing, and then the next day talked by phone - she sounded better... and in less than 8 hours from that last conversation she was gone. Now it will take a while for this to sink in that she is really gone.
In some ways like this optical illusion, there appears something that is not there but when we look closely we see it is not there - but when we look at the whole, the little grey boxes, (what is not there) appears in the intersections...