Suddenly hearing she had breast cancer, M.A., one of the authors, a nurse with discerning witness, ponders her experience of rolling stones. At the time she worked in a center dedicated to living humanbecoming with person-family-community concerned with a cancer illness. Humanbecoming paradigm was the specific discipline guiding the care in the center. Moment-to-moment, the author (M.A.) was moving with emerging meaningful experiences of having breast cancer, shapeshifting her living quality with surprising uncertainties. The humanbecoming principles structuring meaning, configuring rhythmical patterns, and cotranscending with the possibles illustrate her story with the metaphorical expression of mountains as meaningful in a Swiss novel.
Keywords: discerning witness; humanbecoming; living quality; mountains as metaphor.