oooooh spooky!

Hola and happy Friday!!!! As you know, ghosts is REAL! This week's story is a reminder to be open to signs in order to receive them....

"A sign we received from my grandfather after he passed in 2007. He and my grandmother had been together since they were 16 and they were each other’s love of their lives. He was equally obsessed with his children and grandchildren, and despite his rough exterior, we always knew how much he loved us. When he passed away in a tragic motorcycle accident at 54, the whole family was devastated. My grandmother had an especially difficult time dealing with the loss and even expressed feelings of anger toward him for “leaving her to live the rest of her life on her own”.

A couple years prior, he had set up this beautiful enclosed garden space on the side of their house. I’m not exaggerating when I tell you it looked like a magic fairy land straight out of a movie. He called it his “quiet place” and every day, he would sit out there on a big iron bench and watch the blue jays pass through. When he died, my grandma had him cremated and his ashes were enclosed in the base of a stone bird bath now displayed in the center of the quiet place. On what would have been his 60th birthday, my grandma decided to go out and have her morning coffee in the garden. As she sat down on his bench, she couldn’t help but start sobbing at the sight in front of her. There, at the base of the bird bath containing my grandfather’s ashes, was a dead blue jay placed neatly on the ground and his favorite cat sitting proudly next to it. What the actual fuck, am I right? A gift on his birthday from his most cherished companion.

After that day, my grandma knew that my grandpa had never left her side. She was no longer angry with him for his death, nor did she feel alone. He had always been there watching the blue jays play in his garden. The cat was just the only one that knew it."