We
had a lot of money problems, though we managed
to live in an attractive two bedroom
apartment in Montreal, a city where good housing was inexpensive at
that time.
The
bedroom where I had this experience was
pretty, I had done with a lot on a
low buget. The walls were pale strawberry, there was a large white
rocking chair,
from a vintage store sale. Also a
wicker chair with green flowered cushions. But best of all was the door
opening onto
a small balcony, onto a quiet tree
lined street. I pulled the wicker chair onto the balcony most nights and
planned our careers
as artists.
Extraordinary
physical illness blighted our
lives, unknown even to many of our
friends. I suffered from a excruciating jaw and neck injury called TMJ,
or tempomandibular
joint injury. This originated in a
car accident on the Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver, when my Ford Falcon
was rear-
ended by a marijuana soaked driver.
Well,
I am guessing that, because he just
kept driving into my car, even after
everyone on the bridge stopped because it was rush hour.
The
pain I suffered caused me to lie around the home a lot, reading,
drawing, painting, though I also
took long walks on Mount Royal attmepting to stop the decline of my
physical energies.
Chard
and I were very close, the sort of closeness where one person begins
the sentences, and the other one may
finish them correctly. His younger sister Pauline suffered major
childhood illness,
giving him great patience and
kindness when dealing with a suffering mate.
I
woke up in the middle of the night feeling a cord like an umbicilical
cord, radiating energy between our
navels. This was not at all sexual. With my medical problems, we did
not have
much of a sexual life. I knew the
shape of the cord, though I could not see it with my eyes.
I knew the shape and length
of the astral cord, because I felt it exactly.
Later,
a friend told me that such an experience meant that we were Twin
Souls, destined for one another. I
hope that is not true, because we should have stayed together, if that's
the case.
I knew it was a sign of deep
love and connection.
