Older Man Younger Man by Joseph Dispenza

Author:Joseph Dispenza [Dispenza, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619150362
Published: 2011-09-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Spring came quickly on the heels of the bad weather. The sun reappeared, and with it new sprouts on the blood-red geraniums in the pots outside our windows and the banks of orange bougainvillea hugging the walls across the lane from our house. Soon billows of big lavender blossoms on the jacaranda trees swelled up in back yards all around the neighborhood. The hot shower days and open-oven nights were long past.

Belen kept the house immaculate, washed our clothes and dried them in the sun on the line outside our kitchen, and repaired them when they needed buttons or patches. I bought roses and nardos at the mercado two or three times a week and she set them out in big vases in the living area and the bedroom. Soups and stews waited for us at the end of the day, and fresh, chewy blue-corn tortillas or still-warm bolios baked that afternoon at the panaderia down the hill.

Mike and I, recommitted to each other in a place that was all our own, were riding high on a wave of contentment. We seemed to be smiling all the time, the way we did in the first few months after we met. I was working on a new edition of The Way of the Traveler. Mike was starting his massage therapy practice in earnest at an office downtown that he and Beverly and I rented to house the retreat business. He even had time in the evenings to work at his jewelry bench, managing to turn out some fine-looking rings and bracelets and brooches.

To launch his bodywork practice, he came up with the idea of running a weekly raffle at the upscale salon of a hairdresser friend of ours. The clients who went in to have their hair done entered the raffle by dropping cards with their names and phone numbers into a fishbowl. The weekly winner received a free massage. In two months, Mike had a database of virtually all the well-heeled women in San Miguel. Word spread quickly that he did excellent work. Before the year was out, Mike had built himself a thriving business of his own.

One afternoon that summer he came home from his downtown office with the news that he had decided to become a college student with the goal of getting a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Medicine.

“When I have that, I think I’d like to go on and become a Naturopathic Doctor,” he told me with mounting enthusiasm. He had found a program that he could complete through correspondence on the Internet. Now that we had good Internet service—dial-up had been replaced in town by highspeed cable access that year—obtaining a degree by studying on-line was more of a possibility. The program was offered by a school of natural health in the United States, a pioneer in distance-learning and highly respected for its courses of study in alternative healing.

“How long is it going to take?”

“Four years,” he said, “maybe five. Then two more years for the doctorate.

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