Spontaneously, they made a human gate around me, cocooning me from the crowd.
Needlework cocooned me in a privacy of sorts and while I have never lost my love of sewing as a private pleasure, in my chosen career path as a community artist, I made my sewing into a public art.
After 45 minutes of this, she smoothed on a body cream of shea butter, almond, grape seed and lavender oil, cocooned me in towels, clear plastic sheet and blanket, and left me basting fragrantly for 10 minutes.
I tapped the accelerator somewhere on the edge of London and didn't really have to touch it again until we hit the beach, the 10-way adjustable leather seat cocooning me like a favourite old armchair all the way, as drivers of Mercs and BMWs looked on in wonder.
Other days, the quiet cocoons me for the entire ride.
"I did not know how dangerous my world was, and that's where I credit my mom for breaking those rules and cocooning me".
Another resource I could no longer fall back on was the demonization of the smoker, a central tactic of Carr's that had not only helped wean me in the first place, but also cocooned me from relapsing.
"David's evolution is really like a butterfly coming out of a cocoon," Eizenstat told me.
Raunchy Hollywood movies have been replaced by standout sex scenes — alien sex from "Cocoon," the "show me yours" exchange from "The Ice Storm" — that can be studied in private on Hulu.
Outside the Shuttle, my space suit was a cocoon that protected me from the extreme temperatures and vacuum of space.
