Well I guess today is going to be a day of reminiscing. I have often wondered, if my husband, now of 19 years, and I had not gotten married when we met on Adak, what would have happened to us. Last night I think I was shown an answer. As many of you who know me or have read my book, I have times where I will fall into a twilight sleep and experience very vivid dreams on a multitude of topics. I'd like to think that last nights dream episode just might hold some of the answers to a long time of "What Ifs."
In my dream, I am on Adak Island in Alaska, and I am still in the military, but in my dream my honey and me are unable to marry. But I had made him a promise to find his birth family. (Which that part is true, I did make this promise and kept it.) In my dream I also keep this promise and that is what keeps our connection together. We talk on the phone constantly and I end up going to California to see him and we realize there, that we want to be together and go home to where he lives and get married. Could this have worked that way? It sounds much more complicated, and I have to say, OK, thanks for the dream - dream fairy, but I like how our love really came together. I wouldn't have asked for it any other way. It was meant to be. Whether people approved or not.
I dream about Adak a lot. I can see the people, I can hear the sound of the wind, I can feel the excitement of dancing with Ron when our love was still not expressed to one another, and we so wanted to share how we felt. There is just something about that little island that I feel I must go back, but everyone says, "Oh Stacey, you can't go back as it would never be the same." Yes, OK, the island is no longer run by the Military, but that is not what draws me back. The island just has this power over many of us that where there. I'm sure I could get a few people to share their stories about the island on this post. I guess all I can say...It's magic, and I found my love of a lifetime there. I got pregnant with my first son there, when I was told by Doctor's that I couldn't have kids. Humm? one word...Magic. (smile) So why are we supposed to go back? I don't know, but what I do know, is that I feel like the Jack character on the televison show "Lost". Maybe the men and women of the Seabee's have the answer to giving this island new life. In the meantime below is a link that shows the life and times of our little island and all its beauty and sense of family. Enjoy.
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