Conversation With a Psychic

My only friend in the state

I have known my friend Pat for around twenty years. We first met back in the mid-1990s when I owned and ran a small bookstore up in the mountains of Colorado. Pat was living in Taos, New Mexico then and she and her man of the time often took weekend trips up into Colorado for adventure and shopping. She came into my bookstore one day and we struck up a conversation that is essentially still going on twenty years later.

Pat is a psychic — and a very good one. Back then she worked as a professional psychic. For a while she worked for one of the big national psychic hotlines but she became extremely frustrated with that and quit. “Psychic readers have been turned into a commodity by corporate greed and I won’t have anything to do with that,” she has said on numerous occasions.

Even though she no longer does it professionally she is still very psychic. She has blown me away far, far, far too many times for there to be any doubt in my mind. When I speak with her there are no thoughts that I can hide from her because she will always pick it up. With her I can only be 100% honest.

Although my bookstore was a general, full-service bookstore I had an inordinately large “New Age/Metaphysical” section. I had fantasies of only carrying new age/metaphysical books but that never would…