the life coach 21

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Oh what did you see my blue eyed son?

What did you see my darling young one?

I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a bleeding

I saw a white ladder all covered with water

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

Earl's Departure

In the evening Jay got a call from Maria again. She asked him if he come as soon as possible. they just had dinner in the kitchen

but he knew he had to go now; this was a serious call for help.

"Can I take Pearly with me, Maria?" "Yes, please do", she said.

Then he knew for sure. Not too much time left for his friend...

He told Pearly and asked if she wanted to come. "Of course! He is my best friend."

They were quick to get to their bikes out as Jay told her that it was very serious this time.

It didn't take them much time to reach the block. Pearly rang the bell and the door opened immediately.

They jumped up the stairs until they reached the second floor when Jay stopped and said: "Let's catch our breath first." They waited a minute and walked the last steps.

The door was open and they went inside and said hello when Maria came out from the kitchen.

Jay noticed that she was very worn down since he saw her just some hours ago...

They all kissed cheeks. "Let me just talk with you first; in the kitchen", Maria said.

They all went in and sat down by the table. Maria served them a dram glass of Tsekoudia. "I think this is good for you both", she said. Jay doubted that it was and said so. "I am better off without if this visit is what I thin it is Maria, sorry to say." Mari nodded and sighed and poured up glasses of water instead.

"I am sorry. I am so upset that I thought it would do us all good, but you are right, we need to stay alert and aware."

"The doctor came around after you left today and stated that the cancer was accelerating rapidly and that Earl didn't have much time left and that we should all be with him tonight.

"I see", said Jay, "we will stay here with you and Earl as long as it takes."

Maria took their hands and squeezed them and said:" euvkaristo filli mho! Sorry, but I have to say thank you in Greek, it's my language of passion. We can go in now. Earl knows that you're here. He can hear all we say although he falls into a coma ever so often."

"The ability to hear is the last sense that leaves us and that's why we should be talking all the time with people who are very sick or dying", Jay said

They went into the bedroom which was lit only by one small lamp

standing on a stool by the bed. Earl was lying as dead in his bed

as Jay had seen him earlier this day with his beard sticking up from underneath the blanket and his hair were spread out on his pillow. He opened his eyes when they came in and a grimace looking like a forged smile appeared on his face. "Hello, my friends," he whispered and his hands came up to reach for theirs. Pearly and Jay held one hand each and Earl squeezed as hard as he could to tell them that he was still there with them...

Maria had a faint smile on her face now; happy that her husband

was talking with his best friends. She felt safer having Jay and Pearly with her.

Earl just looked at them and held on to their hands as if he was afraid that they would leave him...

He had tears in his eyes, but still a smile was lingering on his lips. "I have little time left you, but you will always be my friends wherever I go or what happens. I am not afraid anymore as I have been until this morning. I feel safe and know that this was supposed to happen quite soon and when I have Maria and you two here I am prepared for whatever will happen"...

He sank down on the pillow and closed his eyes. "Just for a while", he whispered, "need to rest." They all sat in silence around him and watched as he breathed heavily, but he was still holding their hands...

Then he suddenly lifted his head and said:" please some pillows behind my neck and raise me up so I can sit up straight!" He said

this in a clear voice and as if he was in a hurry. Jay looked at him and had a smile on his mouth. He said: "You seem to know what you are doing, Earl?" Earl looked at him a while and said;" I seem to; that's right. I just had this vision where I was told to sit up. What does that mean?" Jay smiled at him and took his hand again. "It means you are an old Buddhist monk, Earl." Jay smiled again and he helped him with more pillows to prevent him to falling to any side.

Jay was smiling broadly now; "so, let us do the job, Earl. You

know what is coming, don't you?"

"Yes, I am ready my friends and my wife", still in a clear voice.

He was sitting up straight and well supported with pillows. "Earl,

my friend, can you focus on the light at the foot end of the bed?"

Earl looked down his legs and then raised his head a bit to see more clearly. "Yes, I can see it!" he said in a loud voice. "What can you see?"

"I can see something looking like an angel or maybe it's just a shining light." "How does it feel?" Jay said. "I feel very well right now. I have no pain anymore. I feel welcomed into this light and I feel only love streaming from it."

"Earl, my good friend, can you go into the light? Is the time right for you?"

Earl was smiling and he said: " yes! I am already there!" Jay could see light streaming out of Earl's forehead and merging with the light at the bed's end. His body sank backwards against the wall, still in a sitting position though - and he left his body...

Maria was lying across her husband's legs, sobbing.

"Good bye and happy journey, my love", she whispered...

Pearly and Jay were still hold their friend's hands.

They sat like this for a while. Then Maria rose up and said:" let's go into the living room." Jay put his hand on Earl's chest and could feel that his friend was not in there anymore. He looked up and said: "happy journey, Earl."

Then they all joined together in a circle and held each other tightly.

They were standing like this for 20 minutes; feeling the room slowly being emptied for disease and pain...

Later, when they were sitting in the living room, Maria had served

Tsekoudia again and this time it was in its place. she said she had

prepared a lamb for them.

They stayed for many hours talking, crying, but most of all comforting each other in these blessed hours. Earl was with them again and they enjoyed the meal and the wine served with the tender lamb, but most of all they felt the warmth and love for each other getting stronger. More now than in Earl had still been with them.

Relief was what they were feeling; that Earl was well and had no pain or fear to struggle with anymore...

It was midnight when Pearly and Jack came back home and could go to bed. They were holding each other for hours...

Jay was still following Earl; talking to him and comforting him; just to be there with his friend

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