angelic
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ORIGINAL: champagnewishes I have a collar that was placed around my neck by my Mentor (yikes 18 years ago) that means enough to me that it would be the first thing i grabbed should the house catch fire. After two years of intense studying, training, learning and understanding He placed the collar around my neck and told me the time has come...i was ready to go discover for myself. This was the last time i was to see Him as he died soon after. At the time, my collar was a simple representation of what i had accomplished during those two years, not unlike a diploma upon graduating school. But over the years, i have come to realize what His intent was in giving me my collar and in the same breathe, setting me free...He was a very wise old man. It was His message, i believe, for me to remember to always be true to myself...to always wear my own collar first and foremost. Not to be overly anxious to wear Another's collar until i was certain of my willingness to replace my own collar with Anothers. To date, i have never found the One who's collar i am willing to replace my own with. When and if i do, i will travel back to Texas and leave my collar on His headstone...it seems only appropriate to do so. What a beautiful thing.
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~....and once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return.~ -- Leonardo de Vinci
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