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[SunnyDawn]

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OH!!! Poor thing! She's here to help teach us youngins how to do it right! We can't learn without our seniors living long enough to share these tidbits.

I blame our society. I have heard several senior citizens tell me they feel as if folks are just waiting for them to die! I've even read horrible statements like this made in the comments section of a couple of political commentaries on Social Security reform!!! What is wrong with people! It breaks my heart to hear she doesn't feel like there is any reason for her to still be here!

It's one of the things that draws me to a retirement in another country. Most cultures still revere their elderly! Not sure I want to be elderly here in this country feeling like some folks wonder why I'm still around.

On the first topic, yes I am trying to purge all of the superstitious nonsense that I was raised with and learn to just accept things that happen as normal even if I've been told I was different all my life. I really think my Mom meant it as a compliment but also told me not to say much around the relatives cause they would think I was a witch.

My older sister called me a witch for many years and said I better hope we don't ever move to Portland cause they would burn me at the stake! I believed her too!

My Mom did admit that for a time, when I was very little, she wondered if I was possessed. I didn't quite know what to say to that revelation!

 

[sherylreno]

I know really! Oh my gosh, I just adore Nonni with all of my heart. When she first moved in with me I wouldn't let her lift a finger because all she did was work, work, work and work. Then she took care of her younger sister who had Alzheimer's. I mean really here's a 95 year old woman cooking, cleaning, shopping. She had to go down into the basement to do the laundry. We moved here from the Bay Area just to be with her when Nonno died.

It took 15 years for her to finally move in with us, once she was done with working & taking care of her sister. The family says she loves it here in our house and are thankful we are one of the few young ones who want to have their family move in with them when they can't do the things they once were able to do. She keeps thinking she's a bother to us. It's what she told me when I took her to the doctor's last week. Oh, I'm always a bother to you both. WHAT DID YOU SAY!

Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. Why would someone think they are a bother to someone who is so thankful to have them with them and they get to live with them too? I mean really now.

 

[Peep_Show]

EVERY life has value. It's awful when folks go off on that "I'm useless" tangent. I find that talking to old folks is a vast treasure of unstoried resources. The National Court Reporter's Association took part in the Veterans Project and it was a very rewarding experience to sit down with a couple of vets and hear their war stories and memories and tales of a bygone era. Tom Brokaw got it right when he said it was the greatest generation. But then now we've become an exceedingly disposable society and nothing seemingly is meant to last. Well, ignore that hype. Give me a Maytag washer anyday! (Probably why it wasn't until last year I got off Windows 95...I'm still reporting on a 25 y.o. steno machine despite fellow reporters' accolades about their digital this with a display screen...which, btw, cost a huge sum of money and is in the shop regularly.)

One thing I really enjoy now in my mom's twilight years is sitting down with her and just asking questions. I've learned more in the last three years about family history and relatives' escapades than in the previous 50 before. These are stories that will live in infamy when I pass them along. And had I just not taken the time to sit and really listen I never would've gotten those precious nuggets.

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(Theme to "Twilight Zone" playing....)

Sunny

Don't try to explain it (deja vue experiences), just go with it. Some people are more in tune to the patterns of the universe than others. I've had a few occasions where I realized I should keep my mouth shut and others where I followed that inkling and avoided major disaster. Think of it as a gift custom-made just for you. No rhyme or reason for it to be bestowed upon you...just a random blessing. Use it as you see fit.

I've had instances where that sixth sense has kicked in for me to the point where it has spooked myself:

1) In college I had dreamt about being in a car crash in a VW bug. The next day I was scheduled to go to Disneyland with a couple of college classmates and they showed up IN A YELLOW VW BUG. I had no clue. I declined, stating a last minute project or some such. And, yes, they were in a horrendous accident on the trip back where the rear of the car (my seat) was obliterated by a truck.

2) I was lamenting long and hard since his arrest about how I absolutely did not want to get picked for the OJ Simpson jury for his case in LV. Sure enough, I got a jury summons and was sequestered as a special group...to fill out a questionnaire on how fit I was to be a juror for People v. Orenthal James Simpson. My sister freaked...out of 2 million potential jurors in Las Vegas, how did I know? (BTW, I didn't serve. I stated my favorite TV show was Court TV and I adored Nancy Grace)

3) I told folks at a family holiday gathering that Dad was going to die on January 4th. He did.

4) I was convinced I was going to die before I reached Age 42 and felt horrid doom in the months leading up to my birthday. Nearly had my chance the day before my birthday when a cargo truck of seafood jumped the median barrier and careened down the hill at a freeway interchange on a collision course and crashed in front of me. Swerving and skidding, I missed it by 2 yards....

Now, mind you, I'm not a prognosticating freak. I just sometimes get these unshakeable hunches. Sometimes it's a spooky thing. Sometimes it's just a "Well, isn't that odd?" And, yes, sometimes it's way off base. But I pay attention...afterall, there must be some reason for it. I've managed to survive 2-score-ten-plus years thus far, so something must be working right. I cannot say the hunches have all been spot on, either. There have been some really odd interpretations. And there's a big difference between hunches and predictions, so don't go all "Who's going to win the Super Bowl?" on me and think I know the answer. Sometimes I haven't a clue. The universe is rich with gifts and rewards. Just go with the flow.... And be glad it's just an occasional thing.

Can you imagine how awful it would be to be a medium a la Sylvia Browne or John Edwards? Just nonstop stuff. Yech.

(You may now resume your usual programming...)

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I think de ja vu is just a feeling of farmiliarity that occurs in your brain during certain things. like a short in your head that makes you think something youre seeing has been seen before. perhaps the sensory area of the memory that makes little things remind you of something you hadnt thought of in years.
what you guys are talking about i think is much deeper than de ja vu. I think its much more special and much more deep.


btw, i am knocking up Darby. Its happening.

 

[sherylreno]

Not sure but I do know one day I heard John say my name, he's a commercial driver for my dad at the fish place. I searched the house high and low looking for him because I was sure he called my name, I'll never forget it. I go out front and his truck isn't there. I go back into the house and mark down the time. When he got home I asked him what happened at this time and why did you call my name. He said it was pouring rain so hard he had a tough time seeing. He was approaching the Carquinez Bridge heading east and just before the bridge there was a sharp turn. He was thinking of me just before the turn saying to himself, I better not miss this turn or Sheryl will be ticked. Boy I sure would have, he would have ended up more than 30' down almost in front of C&H sugar. I would have been ticked.

I had a dream my girlfriend whom I've known since kindergarten, was driving on a road in the delta, I dreamed they drove off the road into the water. I call her house and asked for her but step-father said she wasn't home, she was in the delta with John, her boyfriend now husband. I told Jack to please call them and tell them to get off the road they are on but silly me there was no way to call them back then. I thought really hard in my mind for Lynn to get off the road. She called me later that night and wanted to know what was going on with me because she felt something really strong and she made John pull over to try to figure it out. We are still best friends to this day and we still have things like this happen together.

There's a lot of this stuff I can tell you all but it's really not a big deal, I just feel really sad when I dream something not nice that it even wakes me up in a deep sleep and then it's on the news. That's the worse to have.

Okay, I'm done now. I hope no one thinks I'm silly or weird but hey if they do so what, I know what I know. I have friends who see it. I'm not as strong as I was though as when I was younger, that was a lot better.

 

[sherylreno]

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What's happening?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

lets just say we have decided to let her have a romantic evening with another man for a night. we will still let abner think the baby is his though.

 

[2seth2]

???? abrie i am sooooooooooo confused

 

[NevadaRon]

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[NevadaRon]

When I told you all about the accident where I broke my back - it was on a Monday. The Thursday before, I had a dream that one of us was severely injured on the job. The next day (Friday), I was nervous as a cat just waiting for something to happen. But, nothing did, and then it was the weekend, so I forgot all about it by Monday until...

I love old people. It makes me sick to hear people seriously discussing things like euthanasia! Gee, I hope that doesn't offend anyone; if so, I'm sorry. It's just the way I feel about it!