About an hour and a half after the birth, a nurse came in and handed me a formal document to fill out. It read: On July 7, 2008, at 6:22 pm, (name) was born. 6:22. My favorite Bible verse: If thine eye be single, Thy whole body will be full of light. —Matthew 6:22 The mandorla. The paradox instead of the contradiction. The union instead of the friction. The place where all the colors live. The white light. The third eye. A verse that has given me spiritual guidance for decades, 6:22 was even carved into Camila’s and my bedroom door by two Dogon tribesmen I commissioned in Mali back in 2000.
