A Meditation on Rachel Veiga at 41

The first thing you notice about Rachel is her beautiful shoulder-length hair that recalls depictions of King Arthur’s Guinevere. It frames a face that radiates kindness, which is the first thing you feel in Rachel’s presence. As tumultuous as her life may be in any given moment, she is calm, deliberate, self-possessed. It may be her natural, practical state as a Capricorn but more likely the result of a rich inner life fueled…