I don't know what to say and keep quiet as we walk out on the Beloved Back Deck.
Kyle places his hands on the railing, closes his eyes and takes deep breaths.
I plop in a chair to give him space.It's a beautiful day with a bright sun, slight ocean breeze and everything is blooming brilliant blues, pinks, reds and whites.
Taking my shirt off to work on my tan, I toss it on the table and watch him open his eyes and smile at the Palm Tree with the oyster eyes.
"Is that Fran?" he asks pointing at the wall of trees that canopy the privacy fence.
Nodding my head I watch his smile broaden and he turns towards me. He is very tall with long wavy brown hair cascading his shoulders. The flowing white shirt he wears gives the impression he's the ghost of a Shaman because his skin is very pale.
"Whew," he smiles sitting down, "you have so much energy it was overwhelming me and I need more space.
"I'd rather be out here," I shrug.
His smile is beatific and there is a sweetness about the man. Sarah and I had agreed to help him if we could and he was asking for it now.
"So as I was saying, I've done music my whole life. I've never worked a 9-5 job but I got a nice house, food in the Fridge and cable television!"
The way he says it is filled with wonderment and pride so it makes me smile.
"But I want more. I'm tired of the bars. And I have this chance," he explains. "I've been asked to combine my music with speaking in Churches and workshops across several states."
That's why he's here. I'm coaching him on getting his story together, doing it right and building an arsenal of antidotes he can whip out whenever he needs it.
That was a couple of months ago but yesterday I received a message from him on Facebook with a link to his most recent speech.
"The boy is on fire," he wrote.
Clicking the link, I listened to his marvelous story perfectly delivered to a group in Greensville, South Carolina as I sat in the same chair on the same deck without a shirt on perfectly beautiful day.
His speech made me smile. (Check him out at https://soundcloud.com/thespiritcenter/kyle-shiver-sel-realization !)
"The boy has indeed come a very long way in a very short period of time," I wrote him. "I'm proud of you."
And I sat there and kept right on smiling.
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