Free Bee Happy by Marcia C Brandt Page A

ready to find someone to be happy with.  Scratch that, I want someone to be absolutely, positively, madly in love with.  Someone who makes my toes tingle every time I see him, someone who will laugh and cry with me.  Make babies with me and live together in my happily ever after fairy tale dream world.  I don’t know if my knight in shining armor drives a red convertible or not, but I do know that I enjoyed our date and am looking forward to next weekend and the wedding.  I’m a sucker for white dresses and smiling families and especially wedding cake.  I don’t know how wedding cake frosting is made, but it has to be the best frosting on the planet.”    Calli took a deep breath and realized what she’d said.  She hadn’t consciously believed that she was ready to move on, but having heard herself say it out loud to Sally made her stop and pause, those words did ring true.  Somewhere inside she knew she was ready for her husband to appear.  “Wow, I really hadn’t figured out how ready I am to find Mr. Right.  I know that you’ve been telling me for a very long time that there’s someone perfect for me, but I hadn’t connected the dots before this moment.  That’s amazing.  I can feel some sort of energy coursing through my entire body.  What is that?  Hormones or what?”  Calli felt strange, not a bad strange, but a good feeling strange.
      “You are just letting your kundalini fire rise up your spine and activate all your chakras.”   Sally said it as a firm convincing statement.   Calli crossed her eyes and stuck out her tongue, “Does it make me do this without knowing it?”  They both laughed, Sally knew that her best friend didn’t want to understand the majority of her spiritual information and Calli knew that there were spiritual truths that she didn’t have a clue about and wasn’t even slightly interesting in learning either.  “There you go spewing your voodoo stuff -- you know that I’m only interested in the physical, I can touch it stuff.  If I put the seed in the ground, and water it and nurture it I will have a plant that I can harvest and eat to keep myself alive and sell at the market.  All this energy stuff makes my brain go haywire.  Not that I don’t believe it works, but I’m not ready to put on the purple gowns and chant walking around the town square during a full moon.”  Sally knew better than to begin a discussion with Calli about the merits of her spiritual training.  This conversation happened about once a month, amazingly close to every full moon.  One of these days or moonlight nights Calli would be ready to delve into the spiritual side of life, Sally knew that her friend couldn’t help but be connected to the nature spirits of her gardens.  She probably couldn’t touch them or see them but she was positive that Calli could feel their presence and didn’t have the vocabulary necessary to express what happened to her each and every day she as she worked with the elementals in her garden.
      The rest of Sally’s lunch hour flew by, two friends agreeing to not agree about everything spiritual.  Sally’s patience with her friend could win her an award, but she knew that eventually there would be common ground for them regarding unseen forces of the world.  Calli gave her friend a quick hug and headed to the New to You clothing store.  There just had to be another fabulous dress for her to wear to the wedding next weekend.  After her realization that her closet didn’t contain much in the way of dresses, she was on a mission to add to her wardrobe easily and quickly.  The easy part had to do with the fact that she could get some fabulous dresses for a fraction of the cost, and most were in excellent condition and some even still had the price tags attached.  Must have been an impulse purchase and then recycled here, their loss and my good fortune.  As she tried on the dresses she had chosen, there seemed to be a ‘presence’ in