Teressa

Hi Hun

You've come a long way in a rather short time here at mystic Board
... Bravo to you.  

There has been a lot of stress in your life ... this seems to be
getting better for you... I am delighted with your *eureka moments.
I think your sister has done an awesome job of helping you get
stronger ...  

My brother passed away 4.5 years ago and... he too has helped me, since.
At first I bounced between believing and not. Back and forth I went in my mind...
Yes... No... wishful thinking? Maybe....   ... to believing ... then back to doubting again.
I don't doubt anymore at all.

I got tingles when you said your sister directed you to play her favorite
music, I am pretty sure that my brother's favorite music brings him.  

Cool, I think    

P e a c e

Evie

(PS I love Janis Joplin too)

Yes, the beloved who left us never really do. Their essence sort of lingers. My mom-in-law passed away in 2005. After she died, everything was bad for us like our luck became super bad. Expenses was high and a lot of blockages. Things have gotten better. But when I feel depress, I will think of her and a moth never fails to turn up at my home at night. It will flutter around us and will settle down for awhile before disappearing and after that the next morning, I will feel much better. . We believe that our dead relatives will come back as moth to "visit" us.

WOW! I will start looking for things unusual showing up as well. In my family it has been an old superstition per say
that "birds" sent messages at death. I had an aunt whom died many years ago and prior to her death a bat was in my house.
The night before my mothers death, I heard a "whip-o-whil?" say his name but only once.

What is a whip-o-whil? Something like the Grim Reaper? Whose name do they say?

Sorry about the misspelling.

Although the western Whip-poor-wills average slightly larger, the two groups are distinguishable only by voice. While the eastern birds sing the well known three part “WHIP-poor- WEEA” with rising last note and first and last syllables accented, the western birds’ song is lower and more burry or trilled, and accented on the last note only.

Both Whip-poor-will populations migrate at night, with eastern birds wintering from South Carolina along the Gulf of Mexico to Guatemala. Western birds winter in central Mexico.

Description:
Whip-poor-wills are mottled grayish-brown birds with long rounded tails and rounded wings. The males have black throats separated from the breast by a necklace of white. They show white outer tail feathers. The females have a thinner and buffier necklace and lack the white on the tail.

In flight, Whip-poor-wills lack the long pointed wings and white wing patches of the nighthawks (Chordeiles sp.). They are much smaller than Chuck-will's-widow (C. carolinensis) with less pointed wings and, usually, less rufous coloring.