That ‘best friend’ of mine came to visit me in dreamland, again last night. It’s been nearly three years since she died. (But we all know they don’t really die; they just pass-on to another dimension, outside the body.)
In this dream, she was stealing from me, again… All my jewelry this time. She had two accomplices who were also supposed to be my friends. But I didn’t much care about their involvement. It was her involvement, her betrayal, that just tore my guts out.
In the end, I faced her and told her, “I am not going to let this hurt me all over again. And I don’t want you to suffer for it either. It’s all in the past and I forgive you. Now I’m taking this and placing it at the foot of the cross. That’s where it belongs. I won’t carry it any longer. We can let it go, now.” Then I told her, “go and be happy.”
It’s a miracle that we can work through this, even after she has passed. But I do believe that is exactly what is happening. I’m getting my best friend back. For me, it’s almost like Lazarus on the fourth day after his death.
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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them.
After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson.
As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose.
Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian.
She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers.
Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.
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