A brief enounter with a beautiful soul...

Time is a slippery subject. I originally drafted this post months ago, just days after the news broke that Patrick Swayze had finally lost the battle to pancreatic cancer. Since then, distractions of one form or another kept me from finishing the task until my agenda blew wide open this afternoon and I felt I could give this the attention it deserved.

When I heard that Patrick had died I really thought that his soul, of any, would be in need of no assistance from me (or anyone else for that matter). He was, after all, fully aware of his own mortality and had plenty of time to prepare his own "farewell party". But as always, the universe, in it's infinite wisdom, seemed intent on proving me wrong...

When I say the encounter was "brief"? I mean just that. He appeared to me only for a moment or two ~ just long enough for me to ask him what he felt he had to reconcile within himself. His instant reply was simply that "it was too soon..." He eluded to family but most specifically to his wife, Lisa... he just wasn't ready to leave her to grieve his loss.

As I watch the interview with Barbara Walters just now, months, if not years after it was recorded, his words echo in my mind just as that same sentiment echoed in his heart prior to his crossing "... our love is huge" and it indeed seemed "too soon".

A few days after our first encounter, I was delighted to have him stop in again, (briefly, just as he had the first time). It seems he had a few "passing thoughts" that he wanted to share with anyone who cared to listen:

"Death was the easy part. Dying was the hard part.

But living..." (he paused for a moment, smiled and continued);

"Living was by far the BEST part."

Such beautiful wisdom from such a beautiful soul ~