By Grey Feathers

January 8, 2014 (San Diego's East County) -- Three years ago today, Gabriele Gifford was shot in the head.  She was rushed to the hospital where we thought she would surely die.  The same hospital where I would be treated after my heart attack a few month later in the hot summer of 2011. 

There was a Lunar Eclipse that summer that plunged Tucson into the deepest darkness conceivable and it seemed the chill of the legendary Shadow Wolf of Native American lore had been unleashed upon my world. 

This morning Gabby wrote in the New York Times that for the first time she can will her right arm to move and it obeys.  After years of persistent physical therapy she is making steady progress.  The news brought me to weeping for joy.