“ 10 days till Hallooweeeen!” Jester shouted from the top bed bunk”
“Shhh” Miranda quieted him. “I’m almost to the part in my dream where they discover the
Treasured temple of witches brooms!”
Jester now wide awake as if he weren't already before. Jester and Miranda, twins aged 11 and nearly nothing in common. Yet the 31st of October was the thing that brought them closer than ever. It wasn’t that they didn't get along the rest of the year, they surely did, but this month brought much passion between them which they both understood to be an undeniable and unbreakable bond.
The evening passed into the night and the night faded into the morning. Fresh, crisp morning air gave way to a new feeling in the day. The twins both felt this wave and it took them on a quest so unexpectedly delightful that it turned their worlds upside down.
Now for Miranda, something of this stature- this grand, is totally awesome and exciting. On the other hand, Jester’s reaction went something like
“This is overwhelming, and a lot of responsibility, but also a once in a lifetime occurrence….so I am in!”
WAIT I almost forgot to introduce……… Myself! I. am. Pumpkin. -Miranda and Jester’s beeeeloooveeed orange cat:) I have been the twin’s cat for quite some time AND have been waiting for this VERY moment to transpire.
“Pumpkin….. What are your thoughts about this?” Jester looked at me with genuine interest in my opinion (I think he knows hehe).
“Kiiidddsss time to go to school!” Mom shouted from the living room.
“OK hold that thought” Jester patted me on the head, and off they both went.
The Falcon Hill Elementary school bell rang and with effortless ease autumn leaves scattered amongst themselves. And Students eagerly run out of their classrooms ready to be at home with their favorite snack. A short bike ride later, Miranda and Jester found themselves back at home in deep conversation dissecting their days and newfound sense of excitement.
Let me fill you in on what took place on the 22nd of October. After a great night’s sleep, Miranda and Jester both woke up with a voice that lingered in their imagination filled brains. They call it….. The Dream Voice! Now I know the information of an important mission had to be expressed somehow, but boy this was extraordinary.
Ok “So I had this premonition that we were on a mission to give ourselves permission to fly up to the moon” Jester recalled almost hypnotically.
“WAIT that’s what your dream voice said to you this morning?! I remember, I kept repeating mine throughout the day it went, “ relax you can achieve much take time become you will” Miranda told Jester.
They both stood there in silence for a moment, contemplating. From the corner of Jester’s eye, he spotted his bedside lamp flicker. He thought to himself, that was strange, and quickly returned to pondering what the heck this all meant. By now, Miranda’s wheels were spinning. For as long as she could remember she always thought of herself as the present day Nancy Drew- taking things far beyond their literal meaning and connecting it with far out concepts no one seemed to really understand. Of course it made perfect sense to her and she trusted that knowing.
“You know how Mom always says, you can be anything in your wildest imagination” Jester said to Miranda
“...... Yeaahh!” Miranda answered.
“ Well what if…. What if….”
“Meow,... Meow,”
“Hi Pumpkin”
“What if this is really true.. Like not literally fly up to the moon but..”
“But believe as if we can!?” Miranda replied, finishing his sentence.
“Yes exactly”
It had been a couple of days and the Twins knew something was shifting. The beauty too, in their ability to go along with all that occurred.I've been in lots of different times, spaces, places and it takes courage. Absolutely. I wondered, Why now- weren’t they too young? Yet, no, I suppose that is precisely it -BECAUSE they are their age. You see as I have taken this cat form there are only a few key pieces I remember about the mission. Other than that, I am your average fun- loving kitty!
1 Week from Halloween
“Go ahead, open the gate” Miranda gestured ahead.
Miranda and Jester decided they would take a walk around the neighborhood one afternoon looking at all the decorations on the houses. Some were down right terrifying. Others spooky and fun.
“Hey, can we stop here for a second?” Jester asked.
The yellow house had ghouls, spider webs, and blow up figures all over. What Jester gravitated to the most were the characters Jack and Sally from the Nightmare before Christmas. Jester watched it every year- captured by two people bound together by their own feelings of the void within them.
As Jester stared into Jack’s eyes, he got lost for a moment,
‘Woah ok Miranda you are not going to believe this,.... Actually, you probably will” Jester chuckled, “ I felt Jack smile at me”
“Oh My really!!
“Ok Jester, very important question- what were you thinking when this happened?”
Jester looked at Miranda like he understood where she was going with this.
“ I, .. well, I yes ok I was thinking Jack I see you, you are not alone!”
Miranda considered this. Her face a mixed expression of delight and bewilderment.
“ Jeesterr! I think we just discovered something about ourselves that changes everything”
“ That Jack is happy now?”
Miranda laughs and says,“Yes that!” “ And Something within you caused it to happen!”
Now only a few days until Halloween Night, Jester and Miranda sat in their room and marinated in their imaginings.
“Hey Miranda, Can you pass me that marker please?”
Miranda chucks the marker at Jester.
“Owww, I didnt mean like that!!!”
Jester began writing so furiously you could practically see the words flying off the page. OURSELVES PERMISSION
BELIEF WITHIN CONNECTION
FLICKER FEELING UNDERSTANDING GRIEF
POSSIBILITY ENTHUSIASM
It all made so much sense now.
“ So I think because I saw Jack as a reflection of me and I honored the dark inside him”
“And that was powerful enough to change what you were looking at!” responds Miranda as she jumps up and down with glee.
Miranda and Jester gave each other a big hug.
SLAM
“What was that??”
A Big gust of wind came in through their bedroom door. As the days kept flashing by up to Halloween night, it became very clear to Miranda and Jester how discovering more about themselves was the mission in itself. Their curiosity had led them to marvelous places. And their belief in one another had the power to change worlds. They could not wait to share their experience with their friends at school. A Halloween the twins would never forget.
Stage one Mission Complete.
Thats all for this cat. Pumpkin signing out. ☮️