September 6th, 2007 “Don’t die! Not now, not in the hallway with all these people going by … please don’t die!” His chest started to move once again … shallow, but I could see it. The nurses pushed the gurney as we exited his hospital room and rushed down the Read more…
The Start of My Spiritual Journey … December 2004 I recall the specific day, the specific discussion, that I mark as the “start” of my spiritual journey. I was a partner in a local business systems consulting firm. I had a meeting planned with one of our consultants. It was Read more…
How much is “enough”? Before Ron was diagnosed with cancer in December 2005, we’d been talking about our retirement plans for years. Due to a variety of circumstances, Ron had retired some years earlier. But I was still working away because we both felt we didn’t yet have “enough.” Our Read more…
Okay, what now? So, it’s spring 2006, we’ve made the decision to move and I’ve given my notice to my business partners. We decided the move to Fairwinds was on, but what exactly does that mean? Where are we going to live? All we’d bought was a bare lot. Before Read more…
What was I thinking??? The evening of June 21st, 2007, hauling an overflowing load of stuff that didn’t make it on the moving van, we pulled up to our new house in Fairwinds and … OMG! Hah! As a project manager, I should have known better … since when are Read more…
Thanks for the heads-up We muddled our way through the rest of that summer, in 2007. I appreciated having had the advance warning from the medium about my trip. By the date I was scheduled to fly, there was absolutely no way I could have gone … Ron was relying Read more…
I may have not known anyone else in this new community we’d moved to but thank god Joan and Doug were there. When I called from Hospice, they dropped everything and rushed to my side. Joan drove me home and Doug drove my car, thoughtfully dealing with the parking ticket Read more…
By this point, fall of 2007, I was almost three years down the path of my spiritual research and learning. During that time, I had come to understand without a doubt that we are NOT humans having a spiritual experience, but rather, we are souls having a human experience. I Read more…
Rest, recuperate, rejuvenate … the recipe I was to follow to move forward. But would I be able to slip the clutches of my grief to do so … ? The internal shift in timescale I’d experienced … the one that pushed Ron’s death into the distant past, even just Read more…