Funny how things just happen. Today I received an e-mail from my step-mother who lives in Florida. We havn't spoken in a couple of weeks and she also works in real estate. She and my father owned a real estate firm up here in Hampstead, NH and when he died in 1990, she stayed here for a few years and then re-located down to Florida. After reading Craig Shiller's post this morning The Gift of Tears, I started to think of family who have passed on. My father, my two brothers and other family and friends we've lost over the years when I received this e-mail from my stepmother.
Jim and I were talking the other day about a particularly bleak article in the morning paper about the business downturn. I mentioned the hot dog story and went into my computer to try to find it. I was sure I had it but I couldn’t find it. A little while later he was standing here at the counter talking with Terry when I just happened to check out your blog. The tears just started coming as there it was right in front of me. It surely gave me an eerie feeling. I don’t check your blog routinely and I don’t know why I chose that moment to do so. Do you believe in messages from the grave? Sometimes I do and this was one of those times!
Funny how things happen...through Active Rain she found "The Man Who Sold Hot Dogs" story when she really needed to find it...a message from above??? Maybe so, but what are the odds, that on this day she'd suddenly start reading my blog and finding the story that meant so much to my dad all those years ago...is he sending us a message. I'd like to think so. That Hot Dog story sends a powerful message.
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t. Nice website. Did you do the virtual tour?
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