A Curious Prophecy Comes True

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By Michael Avery

When Pichaya and I met an old friend named Riley Carson and his wife for lunch about a year ago, we were treated to a prophetic waking dream outside the restaurant. Only in retrospect were we able to interpret this message from the Universe about our future endeavors.

Following an inner nudge one day, we called Riley and set up a lunch date to catch up on what he and his wife had been doing since the last time we’d seen them about two years prior. They had talked about visiting Hawaii, a place where I had lived in my late twenties, and I was interested in hearing about their experience.

The restaurant we selected was in a downtown area where the parking meters had recently been updated. While coins could still be used, the meters now had the ability to accept credit cards. When Riley approached the restaurant, he found us struggling to feed the meter. 

Each time I inserted a quarter, no time registered on the face of the meter. Thankfully, the coin return was operating effectively. Riley suggested trying a credit card and removed one from his wallet. It worked perfectly.

As we celebrated our success, Riley posited an interesting observation. He said, “This may be a prophetic waking dream indicating that one day we will be working together.” I laughed.

We had both recently retired from working life and were looking forward to some well-deserved rest and relaxation. What did he mean, “working together?” However, I filed his unusual comment away in my memory bank since it involved a waking dream, a primary interest of ours.

Working Together

Another year and a half passed. During that time, Pichaya and I met Riley and his wife for lunch a couple of times and talked about life in general, but nothing came up remotely related to work. 

Then, one day, many months later, Riley sent us some digital images he had created. They were stunning. Pichaya and I asked our friend if he would consider allowing us to post one of his images on a new blog Pichaya had created with the help of her children, Jamie and Nate. 

One thing led to another. Soon Riley’s images were enhancing both our blog and a related facebook page. We added his name and bio to our About page on our blog.

A few days later, Riley was sorting through some files and found this checklist of what he hoped to be doing during his retirement: 

• A creative outlet
• Flexible hours to work as much or little as I wanted on any given day.
• Doing something I really enjoy
• Be able to do it from home
• If possible, while doing it from home, also be able to work with others
  

At the time we were standing before the parking meter, we knew the Universe was speaking to us in its symbolic language, the language of Waking Dreams, but didn’t have a clue what it was saying. Just as the curious prophecy symbolically stated, the three of us ended up working together. Thankfully, it involved work that isn’t really work. It is a creative labor of love.