There You Are

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How deep can a friendship go? </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jill Mellick explores the grace challenges and gifts of an unexpected instantly deep friendship with Marion Woodman. She documents with letters calls journals memories and photographs.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Timeless moments-singing dancing opening arms to storms holding public events or retreats by the Pacific and on an island in Georgian Bay home stays creating words and music together-unfold. Across decades they exchange letters about external and internal journeys. Their friendship and love endure together apart through harrowing life-threatening illnesses each; Mellick even secures Woodman a second opinion which saves her life.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Riotous tales of travels gone right and wrong over home dinners. Laughter love and insatiability for natural beauty and bodies of water. Silent hair brushing rituals juxtapose with honorary doctorates. Loving poetry and dogs equally with a dog as muse they craft </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Emily Dickinson and the Demon Lover </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coming Home to Myself</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The friendship deepens strengthens-in a perfumed courtyard in Palo Alto under a night sky on a balcony over Georgian Bay on separate continents at the turn of the millennium through illnesses denying contact-even in a last poignant joyful meeting. </span></p>