You're in the right place − 6 April, 2007
I was headed home for Easter. I had to be home by 11 or so, but Mum was going to be asleep, and Dad was out of town. I called Jay.
How's everyone? Moe?
He's really bad.
Lets go see him!
So we go. Jay laughs because I'm up from DC, and he had no idea that I was in town. So that was the first cool part.
We get to Moe's. He's there on the couch. He looks like he has been through a war, and he killed almost everyone, and now is feeling all the remorse of each death all at once. I knew that I wasn't leaving unless he was with me. Either willingly, or in a headlock.
We told him how much we loved him, and that the whole reason we were there was that we cared, not that we wanted to push him.
He said he was scared, and it was so honest. It was the most truthful truth that I have ever heard. We told him that we were too, and that we didn't know for sure what was coming but that we would do it together. Moe finally made a decision.
Well, I have been thinking of Western Psyche...
I couldn't believe my ears. He chose the one and only psyche hospital that I knew anything about. It's the best in Pittsburgh, and most likely on the east coast. I took kids there when I worked at a placement school for juvinile delinquents. I knew the door to go into, I knew the people there, and I knew just how to get there. I was now at the center. I was able to be the stable rock that he could hold onto because I knew. There's power in knowing something like that. Even if you're not the one that knows. See if you are headed into the complete unknown, and you can go alone, or, you can go with someone, well, you're going to want to go with someone. Now imagine that you are walking down the road through the terrible woods in Oz, and all the sudden the Tin Man says, hell, I've been here, and there are all kinds of good things in here. It's dark, and all weird like this so that the sugar cubes and happy feet can grow, but it's actually all good!! It was one of the coolest things to be able to say
Moe, I have you, and you're going to be just fine. I will walk you through all this, and it's going to be good. I know how to get there and I know which door to walk in, and I even know the super secret password to get you into the VIP rooms.
We got to the door and the guard opened it. I said
My Friend needs help.
The guard replied
Well, you've come to the right place... And I felt the peace in the air, and the calm trust settling over al of us like a blanket in the middle of winter that is all soft and warm and heavy so that you are cradled in it. I knew that everything was going to be alright.
Now it would be really ego and it would be really cool to be able to take credit for it, but I can't. It was God. It was the creator of beauty, and of serendipity and of all things good. Imagine that though. Add the O and you get Good. Take it away and there is God. Heh.
Moe got in, and I called him on easter, and he had hope in his voice.
How's everyone? Moe?
He's really bad.
Lets go see him!
So we go. Jay laughs because I'm up from DC, and he had no idea that I was in town. So that was the first cool part.
We get to Moe's. He's there on the couch. He looks like he has been through a war, and he killed almost everyone, and now is feeling all the remorse of each death all at once. I knew that I wasn't leaving unless he was with me. Either willingly, or in a headlock.
We told him how much we loved him, and that the whole reason we were there was that we cared, not that we wanted to push him.
He said he was scared, and it was so honest. It was the most truthful truth that I have ever heard. We told him that we were too, and that we didn't know for sure what was coming but that we would do it together. Moe finally made a decision.
Well, I have been thinking of Western Psyche...
I couldn't believe my ears. He chose the one and only psyche hospital that I knew anything about. It's the best in Pittsburgh, and most likely on the east coast. I took kids there when I worked at a placement school for juvinile delinquents. I knew the door to go into, I knew the people there, and I knew just how to get there. I was now at the center. I was able to be the stable rock that he could hold onto because I knew. There's power in knowing something like that. Even if you're not the one that knows. See if you are headed into the complete unknown, and you can go alone, or, you can go with someone, well, you're going to want to go with someone. Now imagine that you are walking down the road through the terrible woods in Oz, and all the sudden the Tin Man says, hell, I've been here, and there are all kinds of good things in here. It's dark, and all weird like this so that the sugar cubes and happy feet can grow, but it's actually all good!! It was one of the coolest things to be able to say
Moe, I have you, and you're going to be just fine. I will walk you through all this, and it's going to be good. I know how to get there and I know which door to walk in, and I even know the super secret password to get you into the VIP rooms.
We got to the door and the guard opened it. I said
My Friend needs help.
The guard replied
Well, you've come to the right place... And I felt the peace in the air, and the calm trust settling over al of us like a blanket in the middle of winter that is all soft and warm and heavy so that you are cradled in it. I knew that everything was going to be alright.
Now it would be really ego and it would be really cool to be able to take credit for it, but I can't. It was God. It was the creator of beauty, and of serendipity and of all things good. Imagine that though. Add the O and you get Good. Take it away and there is God. Heh.
Moe got in, and I called him on easter, and he had hope in his voice.
Comments:
kga245 (April 10, 2007. 03:18pm)
beautiful. thanks for sharing.