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- Herausgeber: Dreamspinner Press
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
A companion piece to Desert Crossing After hitching a ride with Callum across the desert, Dan is finding it more difficult than he'd imagined it would be to send the young man on his way. When Callum's mother asks him to visit for her birthday, she unwittingly comes to his rescue. Callum is a broken and unhappy man, emotionally abused by his lover to the point of feeling worthless, alone, and without hope. But during his trip, while passing through the Salt Lake Desert, Callum picks up a hitchhiker named Danny, who shows him that life is full of wonder and blessings. He's on the verge of believing in himself again, but can he really make a new life for himself by jumping from the arms of one man into another's? A Bittersweet Dreams title: It's an unfortunate truth: love doesn't always conquer all. Regardless of its strength, sometimes fate intervenes, tragedy strikes, or forces conspire against it. These stories of romance do not offer a traditional happy ending, but the strong and enduring love will still touch your heart and maybe move you to tears.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011
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A Different Perspective
DAN felt terrible. He knew what he had to do and he knew what it was going to do to Callum. The man was terribly sweet and in some ways terribly fragile. It was very damned likely that within the next ten minutes he was going to break Callum’s heart. How had things gotten so complicated?
For years now, Dan had done everything he could to avoid complications. That didn’t mean that he avoided relationships. On the contrary, his relationships with people, however they might be defined, were very important to him. But he had learned some hard lessons in his life, not the least of which was, nothing is permanent.
He’d discovered Buddhism quite by accident. He’d been talking to various people about something he rarely talked about anymore, his personal life, and when the third person in twenty-four hours suggested he check out Buddhism, he looked up and said to the universe, Okay, I get the message! I’ll do it, I’ll do it!
Strangely enough he’d been in a Barnes and Noble, in their coffee shop, so “checking out Buddhism,” had been an easy thing to do. The friend he’d been talking to gave him a couple of suggestions, and by the end of the night, he’d been hooked. He hadn’t been Christian in years (although he did love the teachings of Christ) and the simple advice of Buddhism became a major part of his life path in one evening.
And one of the central themes of Buddhism was that nothing is permanent. That simple statement was the law of the universe. Mountains crumbled. Oceans ran dry. Civilizations fell. And relationships ended.
So he’d learned to appreciate every damned minute of them. And he’d stopped holding on to them. That grasping, that “desire” for forever led to pain and heartache every single time. It had been a hard lesson, but he’d learned to live in the now and stop wishing for anything more than the moment in which he was living.
Nothing was permanent. The Wheel of the Year turned. Season changed into season.
And then a few days ago, out in the middle of the great Salt Lake Desert, he’d met a thirty-three-year-old kid named Callum and had almost instantly been trapped in his web.
