2 Semcay News, August 2, 1980

QUESTION: while I become exuberantly joyfal over something and Tm afraid I act like a little kid about it. For example, the other day I was peeling an orange when I was struck with the amazing dexterity and know-how of good old Mother Nature. I sat there utterly caught up in the wonders of an orange! For vears I have quite taken oranges for granted. But this time my orange hecame omething special to me. ‘est there was the won- ‘erful system of its natural wotective wrapping that <ept it fresh and juicy.

Then I marvelled at the way my orange .was ail uranged in Randy “litele

YESTION: Pm either -estatically happy or right ‘own in the depths. The ~eason? I'm deeply in love ~with a man that is a mystery o me. We have great times gether. Everything ts just erfect. I could float away wn a cloud. Ie will be like ‘mat for two or three days. “hen silence. I can go four z five days without ever “mowing whether he’s. dead we alive. if I phone him at his ‘ome or office during one of aese awful times, I learn vom him that he’s busy or red or had a meeting or, and this fs the hard one) he's ‘een out with friends to a ‘arty or concert or

Just a slice of life

JUESTION: Fm sure you vould not remember me. ‘our years ago | went to you or counselling jast a few inys after I had falled at tying to take my life. We ad about three sessions, If ! emember correctly. You aid some things to me which cannot remember now and vhich hardly registered with ue then. The thing that got oO me was that you said to ae, “If you commit suicide,

will cry.” For some weird eason I believed you and ithough, as I remember it, I lidn’t even reply, I was very ouched. That night | took a rtane cast, and, as you know if! you remember me at all) I save mot beem in touch with ouatall.

sections, each one separate and, again, wonderfully protected. There I was, overawed at the incredible competence of Mother Nature, and I'm sure I was grinning about my new discovery of something that has been going on for centuries. Ain't nature grand. Are you suddenly grateful for that sort of thing.

STEWART: Oh yes, I am. Have you ever examined a snapdragon up close? Marvellous! The other day a big bumble bee lit on the lower lip of a snapdragon in our back yard and I giggled when the weight of it opened up the “mouth” of the flower

_ something. I don't phone

him often, but he NEVER phones me until he wants to see me. I suppose that would not be so bad if it were not

for the fact that the last time |

we were together it was wonderful and I was, so willing to give him love. After that experience, I cannot understand or le a long period of nothing. Am I old- fashined or silly or what?

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STEWART: He may enjoy

you as much as you enjoy -

him, and yet not be ready for the exclusive’ sortf relationship you seem to want. He may be trying his

The other day, I saw your picture in THE NEWS and decided to write you and say, “I'm alive and very happy and want to live a long times” Fm going to phone you and say hello so by the time you read this, we'll have

and the bee walked in. With its weight shifting to another part of the flower, the bee had the “door” closed behind it! When it wanted out, its own weight opened up the entrance again “and away it went to another flower. Beautiful and incredible! I join you in taking my hat off to Mother Nature.

There’s an entirely dif- ferent sort of serendipity I enjoy too. And, like you, I enjoy it like aa kid. Last week a person who called at our house, left behind, by accident, the most beautiful pruning shears you ever saw. They were sharp and felt good in my hand and right

away I went out the back .

and started pruning.

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Loving amystery man

best to tell you (without telling you) that you are being a bit possessive, or even VERY possessive, before he is ready for it.

But, if this relatively recent thing you've got going with him I believe you would be wise to cool your possessiveness and give him a chance to feel safer with you. He MAY be saying

“She's simply great, but Iam —

afraid of submitting to a stranglehold right now. I've got to slow her down without losing her.” If you have not already done so, give him time to come around more than he has up to this point.

had a talk.

STEWART: Thanks _ for sharing your insight with our readers. It was SO good hearing from you.! Your

letter was what Peter Speck, our publisher calls, “ of life.”

a slice Thanks again.

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remember feeling delighted because I didn’t know the guy's address or phone number to let him know he ‘had left his pruners. (Is that a real word — pruners?) I felt deliciously wicked about practically owning my new find. No way to return them. Nothing I could do about it. The dreadful thought came to me that I could look up the owner in the phone book but I haye not done it yet

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