Every time Elle Muliarchyk Johnson watches a butterfly emerge, she remembers marveling at the loud thumping of her daughter’s heart: “Something so tiny and so delicate, and it’s pushing so, so hard inside her chest to grow and to become the beautiful butterfly that this human being will become. It was this most incredible moment, this incredible connection of the universe,” she said.
“Right at the stage when they need to come out of the chrysalis, … the butterfly has to have this incredible strength to push, to make the chrysalis burst. … We have to work so hard to achieve our dreams and to burst through this chrysalis,” Johnson said.
