The hummingbird

摘要

If this story were a play, the first scene of Act One would be set in a physician's office. Everything in the small room, the walls, the furniture and the stock nature pictures of fields and barns, appears overwhelmingly beige. There is nothing that might provoke or distress, nothing that speaks too personally of the people who practise here. Neither is there anything to inspire, to comfort, or to reflect the significance of the life conversations that must occur within the office walls. It is a beige limbo.In the corner, with her back angled against the wall, a young woman sits reading a beige pamphlet. The beauty and vibrancy of her youth is almost shocking against the backdrop of beige; fair skin and long hair, rich with earthy hues found only in nature's pallet. The young woman, so freshly through the threshold of adulthood that the echoes of skipping songs still ring, sits.