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Monday Morning Memo

Yes, I’ve had supernatural experiences that I can’t explain.

I believe a ghost lives in my condo.
His name is Winston.

Winston is not a scary ghost.
He is only mischievous.
Winston likes earrings and he likes to prowl around my condo.

I will tell you a couple of the experiences I’ve had with Winston and you can decide whether to take Winston seriously or not.

Many times I have heard a “clunk” like something has fallen and hit the floor.
I always check and find that nothing has fallen. Nothing has landed on the floor.

“That can be explained away”, you say. OK.

Once I went to bed still wearing my earrings.
I couldn’t find them the next morning.
I was certain they had to be around the bed somewhere.
I searched around the bed, under the bed, through the sheets and gave up.

Later I thought, “This is ridiculous. Those earrings have to be somewhere around the bed”.

I went back to the bed. 
I removed and shook out all the sheets.
I took the pillow cases off.
I moved the bed away from the wall.
I crawled underneath the bed.

The earrings were not there.

Later when I wandered through my bedroom, I glanced at the bedside table and there were the earrings!

The earrings were just sitting there;
perfectly arranged; two inches from the bed.

You may insist that I just overlooked them before. Really?

This last example will be harder to dismiss.

My friend Janice was visiting.
One morning she said,” I can’t find my earrings. Have you seen them?”

Oh Nooooo!

We searched the condo. No earrings.

I asked her where she usually kept her earrings.
She said in her purse but she had already searched her purse. Twice.

I suggested she search her purse one more time; taking items out one at a time; placing it on the coffee table; while I watched. Done.

There were no earrings.

We got up to get a glass of wine and sat back down.

Janice started putting everything back in her purse when she screamed, “Here are my earrings!”

To this day, Janice believes that I played a trick on her; that I had found the earrings; that I had put them on the table.

I promise you, I did not.

“Winston did it”.

– Sue Williams

PS – Novelist Brad Whittington was astounded when he learned that the wizard doesn’t help his mother with these essays. These are 100% her own. I just cut and paste what she sends me in her emails. – Indy

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“That was how the Count and his sister would brave the cold on Christmas Eve. Promising their grandmother that they would be no later than midnight, the siblings would set out on their troika into the crisp night air to call on their neighbors. With the Count at the reins and the pelt of a wolf on their laps, they would cut across the lower pasture to the village road, where the Count would call: Who shall it be first? The Bobrinskys? Or the Davidovs?

But whether they ventured to the one, the other, or somewhere else entirely, there would be a feast, a fire, and open arms. There would be bright dresses, and flushed skin, and sentimental uncles making misty-eyed toasts as children spied from the stairs. And music? There would be songs that emptied your glass and called you to your feet. Songs that led you to leap and alight in a manner that belied your age. Songs that made you reel and spin until you lost your bearings not only between the parlor and the salon, but between heaven and earth.”

- A Gentleman in Moscow, p. 88-89

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