Ode to A Delightful Young Man

 Ode to A Delightful Young Man

written by Bill Curtis / 21st Century Productions
IntellectualVirgin.blogspot.com 
"Your Mind is Your Journey" 

Went on FB earlier. Ex very good friend of mine...from the mid 90s...i

 met her two sons back then...talked with them a lot...

i knew how Mom loved

her two sons...shaped them

...held them high in expectations...which

they fulfilled for the most part...

really delightful young men

...about somewhere say

14 or 15 years ago...maybe more...in Kmart i was verbally jacked up by the oldest son...

Mr. Bill man what happened between you and Mom, he asked...i knew his Mom had gotten married...why didn't you guys get married he asked... 

and then talked to me about why it should have happened...

what he said to me was a gift...

the conversation...need i say i was stunned and happy by what this young man was saying to me

...this young man i knew in his mid to late teens early 20s...now standing with his two young children in tow...talking to me in Kmart...i remember it so well...

and i remember a prior chance meeting near my job site...full of life was he...younger man...brimming at the top with ambition and hope...and able to articulate it

...i remember how powerful he appeared to me...being one...me...who thinks he's pretty powerful himself...i could feel his power...his ambition

...i was proud...i remember...to stand there with him on the corner for about 25 minutes

...just talking...listening... to the younger man tell me what he's up to, planning to be up to, and doing right now

...i was the older man...he the younger man...i listened to him like older men listened to me

...it is a gift an older man can give a younger man...the gift of being listened to...it is a gift a younger man gives an older man...the gift of being heard...

today...i see on FB that the younger man has  passed on...

God stand the Mom in the emotional resilience...of her husband, son and family...in an understanding beyond understanding

...that the mighty Light of her son...opens our own path to a seeing

...that we permission ourselves to receive our Good.

        Written by Bill Curtis / 21st Century Productions

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