Dear Reader,      The story of Cyrus is for all ages, especially those leaving one stage of life and entering another. These stages of growth happen many times in life, and each time it can feel painful and confusing. My own inner child, whose presence I fully acknowledge, has its hand forever held by a wise old misty-eyed teller of stories, of fairy tales, of myths. The receptivity to these tales, the deep work and awareness to understand them, has helped me leave behind so much of what is no longer needed and to find what has helped me enter a new phase of being in the physical world and will ultimately reveal the path to leave it in death.