Cover Story: Part 1
Ever since I started recording my spiritual experiences in May, 2010, it was clear to me that some day they will end up in a book. About two months into writing I was lying in bed, trying to go to sleep when the title and the subtitle popped into my consciousness. A few nights later I had a vision for the front and back covers. I realized that my younger daughter, Elena was about the same age as I was, when my father passed away. I saw Elena and my husband walking away, hand in hand, my husband leading my daughter on a path. I then saw another picture with my older daughter Kati and Chad walking further down the same path.
Next Sunday the four of us headed to one of the parks in Chapel Hill for the photo shoot. The path from the parking lot took us across a bridge, then into the woods. I asked Elena and Chad to walk in front of me so I could take some pictures. Next I took pictures of Kati and Chad walking away. I flipped through the dozen pictures, but none of them felt the right ones. A man and a child waking in the woods, hand in hand. Not enough to catch attention. I looked back toward the parking lot and noticed the wooden bridge again, the one we had crossed. That’s it! “Everyone, back to the bridge!”
I was taking pictures of Elena and Chad, when Kati started to whine by my side. “Mooom! Lacy wants to be in the picture!” Lacy was Kati’s bunny, who was more than a just a stuffed animal. Lacy went everywhere where Kati went. Lacy, the once pink, now mostly gray bunny, was Kati’s spirit guide.
“Oh, Kati! Lacy does not need to be in every…” Wait a minute! Of course! Lacy needs to be in the pictures! In both of them. Elena will hold Lacy as “I” and my “Dad” start crossing over the bridge. And Lacy will be held again, by Kati, to symbolize an older me, still walking with my Dad.
