I kmow a woman who once climbed up a 90 degree ice covered road, flat on her face, dragging her 5 year-old daughter by her hood, to get to her baby who needed to be breastfed. The ice storm had been sudden, and the highway had been closed behind them. The road they had to confront was a high twisting hill, that the road service did not take care of in the winter. This is where her "man" had taken her to live, then behaved in such a way that they split up. It was in the midst of a harsh Vermont winter, with snowdrifts 4 to 5 feet high in the road between her and the main highway, and she had to get to that baby. As the woman stood on the hill, trying to keep her footing, staring up the hill, her car rotated and slid 1/2 a mile down the hill away from her. "We're gonna die Mommy!" cried the 5 year-old daughter. "No! We're going up that hill," said the woman, and so they did. As the woman and child turned to begin their journey up the hill, a skunk slid by, helplessly on its side. The child reiterated, "Mommy, we're gonna die out here!" The woman did not listen. The child, giving up, laid on the ground and refused to help. The tiny woman found places to pull her way up that twisting, turning 90 degree road, and pulled the child behind her, thinking only of getting to her baby. After 4 hours, they had made the 3 hour journey to the house. The baby was screaming in rage, wanting his mother. As the woman clasped the baby to her breast, and said to her daughter, "I told you we'd make it" the little girl looked at her mother in a new way. This is the story of ARTEMIS living in an ordinary woman. Do you have one?
