Summer Rendezvous

Ted was having second thoughts. He climbed carefully through a barbed-wire fence. “Why did I ever agree to this meeting?”, he thought as he made his way through the field of knee-high grasses. The barn where they had agreed to meet, stood old, but defiant in its stand against the destructive forces of Nature.

Ted stopped abruptly. “What was wrong with this picture?” At first, it came to him as just a feeling, like when a rabbit freezes at the scent of the fox. Ted squinted as he turned slowly to the right. Scanning, scanning, looking for the slightest movement or the out-of-place color. He saw nothing and so, with a shrug, moved on.

As he approached the barn, he could not help but remember their trysts here, 5 years earlier. The memories flooded his senses. His heart began to race. He flushed and became fully alert. He recalle3d their very first meeting. She was working as a waitress in a smallish diner in his hometown of Massillon, Ohio. She had come from behind him, so his first encounter was with her voice. Her voice, a thousand angels singing in perfect rhythm and harmony. He recalled so clearly, how his monkey mind had fallen silent at the sound of that voice.

Ted reached out and caught himself on the barn door. His hand shot back as he recoiled at the touch of the old barn. He felt what he described later as an electric shock that zapped every nerve in his body. But the shock felt not scary or bad, just intense like a warm ocean current. He reached out slowly, carefully again toward the old wood of the barn. Was that energy real or was he just remembering the awesome energy that he and Gina created when they were together five years earlier? It did not matter. The energy was definite and life-giving. He held on this time for a long time … how long, he could not say. His awareness filled with the memories of love and of making love. Ted smiled.

His reverie was suddenly shattered when he heard her voice. “A thousand angels singing in harmony.”, he thought.. Her voice had entered his awareness slowly, gently as she had called out from the barbed wire fence across the field of lush, green, tall grass. Now, she was near enough that her angelic voice came to his full conscious awareness. Ted’s autonomic circuitry was triggered immediately. His heart began to beat faster and faster, and his body warmed with delight. By the time she reached him, Ted had already left his body through his heart chakra, primarily, to unite with Gina in the Light of Love, Itself. His body turned as if controlled from a source outside itself. Their eyes met as they enveloped one another in a hug of Love’s Union..They were both beyond their bodies now, in Love’s Reunion.. Truly, this was a heavenly moment. God/dess smiled on the fruit of Her love.

It has been said that the walls have eyes, and in this case, these old barn walls were filled with loving views and vibrations from years gone by. Memories of love shared flooded Ted and Gina as they embraced. Ted broke the silence first. “I am glad you remembered your way here,” he spoke quietly, almost reverently. Gina was still out of breath from her dash across the field. So instead of speaking, she pulled back and smiled at Ted. Then she kissed him on the neck renewing their embrace. Ted responded in kind, kissing her neck gently. Neither one of them would have guessed that the passion between them would be so intense. They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and in this case, it proved itself, true. Gina’s back was now pinned against the barn wall. Her knees weakened and she surrendered to gravity as they both slowly sank to the barn’s soft dirt floor. Ted broke their bond to see his friend’s smiling face and even the barn could not have guessed what would happen next.

Ted saw it first. It was a large spider in a web descending into his view and settling on Gina’s shoulder. Ted pulled back reflexively. Gina screamed as the large arachnid landed on her bare shoulder. Ted grabbed a loose board lying nearby. But then, he froze. He could not smash the spider against Gina’s shoulder, and he was afraid of touching the critter to brush it away. Ted’s dilemma was solved when Gina with a strained voice said, “No! Don’t kill it!” Now, Gina spoke in a whisper, almost as if she did not want the spider to hear, “Grab that piece of cardboard and hold it next to the spider. She looks like the spider in that book ...you know, the one with the pig.” Ted started laughing. Suddenly he saw the scene before him with the humor it deserved or at least the humor they needed at that moment to release the tension. Ted said it between laughter, “Two grown adults afraid of a spider, and now trying to rescue her. Gina started laughing as well. The net effect of their shared laughter was to bring a calming and relaxing. And, as if the spider sensed their change of state, she began climbing the thread that had landed her there. Gina moved away into Ted’s open arms. They both sat transfixed as they watched the spider clime her thread so fine, that it appeared as if she had gained the ability to levitate.

They both saw it at the same time. High up in the rafters of the old barn, was, her web finely spun in concentric circles. Gina’s eyes filled. She began to gently weep with joy. Ted quickly followed. Neither Ted nor Gina can say how long they sat there crying tears of joy and holding one another. Finally, Gina turned to Ted and said, “I think we have found Charlotte’s Web.

(See attached cellphone pic)