She was always a believer.
A believer in God, I mean. And not just in God
as Mystery, or in God as a shared dream or a cosmic game of hide-and-seek with
every one of us as its players. Not God as some non-spatial, non-linear
connectivity wherein time is curved light or light is frozen time.
No, Dana was always a believer in THE God. THE
very left-brained, very male God of Western history. The God who put everything-but-everything
that anyone ever needed to know or ever could know about himself down inside the
snug confines of a single book. The God who worried a great deal over specific things
like where humans stuck their bits and pieces and how many cubits wide a temple
ought to be.
Clear-cut. Simple. Well-defined.