Time did as times does....

Excerpts from "Totally Overwhelmed", Author Tyna T. Duncan


Time did as time does. It came and it went. After my workday and evening activities were complete, I delighted in being able to cuddle up in bed under my down comforter watching Hill Street Blues. Shortly after midnight, my telephone rang. Not quite yet asleep, I rolled over, turned on the light, and reached for the telephone not knowing that the moment I answered that phone call I stirred up my life’s winds, triggering the first phase of the whirlwind of 9-1-1 situations that were about to occur in my life.

I answered the phone. It was, Michael, one of my spiritual sons and members of TWC. Without acknowledging the lateness of the hour, he asked me if I had received a series of pages throughout the day. His tone suggested the obvious, something was wrong. Taking a moment to reposition myself in bed, and inwardly admit I probably shouldn’t have ignored the pages in the manner in which I did, I responded.“Yes.”

Knowing how I am with phone calls and pages, he didn’t bother to ask me why I hadn’t responded to the pages. He simply, yet emphatically insisted I call the seven digit number that had so frequently appeared on my pager immediately. After agreeing to do so, I hit the off button with my right thumb, hanging up the phone. Now sitting up on the edge of my bed, I leaned over and picked up my pager from off the nightstand. Hitting the down arrow on the face pad, I scrolled through the numbers until I reached the number unrecognizable to me before that day. I starred at the pager in my left hand and the telephone in my right. All kinds of thoughts rushed through my mind as to what this person wanted. Beginning to feel a bit anxious I coached myself into making the call. It was 12:18 AM when I made the call.

The phone rang twice and then there was that brief moment of silence. (The moment that separates the time when the phone rings from the time the person on the receiving end answer’s the call.) She cleared her throat and then said hello. It was at that moment – the moment I heard her voice filter through my phone receiver that the quiet wings of change ruffled its feathers and abruptly altered life as I knew it.

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Tyna T. Duncan