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 Excerpt from Buster's Story

     When I looked around to find Lila, she was gone.  The busboy approached me with a business card.  "The tall lady who was sitting over there asked me to give you this," he said.  I read her name and title, "Lila Mae Padgett, Esquire, Attorney at Law."  Her office phone and fax numbers were listed.  Then, I flipped the card over and there was a handwritten phone number.  "Her home phone!  That's first base.  Heaven is smiling on me today."

     That evening around seven, I called the girl.  A recorded message came on.  "That's all right, " I thought.  "I can wait.  This lady is worth waiting for."  Just then, Tanya called and I had to switch gears.  "Hey, Baby, how are you doing?" I asked.  She went on to tell me about her day.  She was a schoolteacher and some smartass kid had given her a hard time.  I tried to console her.  I liked Tanya, mostly as a friend, but she could be a comfort....when I needed someone to hold. 

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Excerpt from Lila Mae's Story

     One day, after a brief rain shower, I stepped outside the house and walked to our peach orchard.  Gazing upward as the sun dismissed the clouds, I spotted a gorgeous rainbow.  I wondered, "Where does its mystery lead?"  I wanted to climb aboard that arching multicolored sliding board and ride it to its end.  As I looked around the orchard at the still green peaches, I began to feel closed in.  Then, refocusing my attention on the endless sky, I felt myself opening up and connecting to the world.  I wondered how many people in South America or Africa or even California were looking at the same sky.

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