Fallen: A Trauma, A Marriage, And The Transformative Power Of Music - Plot & Excerpts
He reaches for the spot behind my ear where for years he has drawn tiny half-moons late at night to help me fall asleep. He reaches for the exact cranky spot in my back, the place where he has smoothed Traumeel countless times into feverish muscle. He reaches even for the curve of my rump, demurely drawing away if a nurse enters the room. His fingers feather over the tops of his legs, tapping his hip bones and then, more insistently, over the top of his thighs, asking a question about the silence in his body that I cannot yet answer for him. But he is here with me, all of him, embodied in his active right hand. THE PINEAL GLAND is small, reddish-brown, and pinecone-shaped and is attached to the roof of the third ventricle. It secretes melatonin, a hormone that helps regulate the body’s biological clock by setting our sleep and wake cycles. It is this small, unassuming gland, centrally located in the ventricular system, that René Descartes claimed as the soul’s conduit to the body, the dividing line in his mind–body dichotomy.
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