We had about 8 hours of non stop rain last night.. I was actually awake walking around in it between 1 and 2 am as I had another chiro session yesterday and it make my body storm a lot in the early hours..
It was a real push to get Jasper out for a super fast short walk around earlier.. he got a bit drenched as walked in the rain and when we got back to the car I got a text from my friend saying she saw a patch of blue and was really looking forward to seeing me at 12… at that moment sitting there, after I replied, the sun started to try to burn off the cloud..now as I sit at home typing this a vast expanse of blue is opening up..
I like to think that that the spirits of her dead Mum and Dad together with mine as well as my sister are shining benevolence down on us this morning because we will be connected and together. In fact on the drive home from our walk I was thinking of how much Sue and I have shared. We first met at college in the first year out of school, six months after my near fatal accident in 1979. We had a lovely group of friends but due to the trauma of what happened to my older sister in 1980 I ended up leaving that college the next year to go north to study… It was not a good move for me as I got involved with someone heavily into drugs and the next year (1982) I came home and asked Dad to go back to my teaching degree.. He said no and made me go to secretarial college.. It was a very hard call…… I loathed the monotony of typing and shorthand, and my drinking and drug taking on the weekends got worse..
Sue and I stayed in touch and after Dad died it was she who was there on that painful night where my ex boyfriend who I reunited with in Athens then betrayed me with another woman.. She had been on a boat heading in another direction when she saw a friend who knew me and said she had seen me on the island of Ios in Greece, so Sue decided to head to Ios and that night the betrayal happened and of course my partner blamed me for reacting with tears and anger but he was not supported by anyone..including the owner of the B and B where we were staying, Francesco..
Sue left me behind in Switzerland later that year to go back to Berlin with her friend Carmel, a few months later on the first anniversary of my father’s death I had that termination I have shared about in another blog this year.. I eventually caught up with Sue and Carmel in both Brighton and England and on our return to Australia not so much as I moved to Sydney and sadly Sue lost her Mum to brain cancer on 12 December 1987 which is the same date that my own mother died in 2017.
There is just too much sychronicity with my friend to think this is not a soul relationship that was chosen before we even incarnated.. She has just been there for me at pivotal times.. I love her with a deep love that has grown with my return to my home town where Sue stayed.. I left Canberra in January 1988 and did not return to live here until June 2011 since then we catch up maybe only 4 or so times a year, but we always make a very special deal of our birthdays…
Today I celebrate my friend and I think that the clouds parting may be a sign that both our parents are so happy we will be together today.. to have one special friend is such a salvation.. I cannot fully express the magic of it.. but I just wanted to bear witness to that fact today.. of how important, special and meaningful the love of a true friend can be..
Emerging From The Dark Night 