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February 10, 2010

A Mind Is a Terrible Thing

I was awakened at five-something this morning by a voice calling my name, just once. “Ronnie,” said the voice that could have been any of my younger sisters’ at a certain very young age. Clear, calm, declarative.  Woke me right up out of a sound sleep and I wasn’t in the middle of a dream, or at least didn’t remember one. I lay awake staring into the dark for a few minutes, unalarmed, and then fell asleep again; we didn’t get up for real till sometime well after eight.

I was talking to my sister Julie this PM, and she asked what the date was when I’d gone to Florida two years ago, the first week of our sister Jeanne’s long and lost fight against dying. I looked at the February 2007 archives; I’d left for there at some ungodly hour on the morning of February 10.

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1 | By: Narya on February 12, 2010 at 05:06 AM

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oh, sweetie . . . was it a good visitation?

2 | By: Sally Mack on February 12, 2010 at 09:41 AM

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I like to think Jeanne was letting you know she’s okay and saying hi.

3 | By: VS on February 12, 2010 at 10:44 AM

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I thought it was “A mime is a terrible thing”...

4 | By: Mary on February 14, 2010 at 08:48 PM

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Nice.

5 | By: Ron Sullivan on February 15, 2010 at 08:42 PM

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Thanks, all. Narya, it was just that one word and I was puzzled about the whole thing till I figured out the date.

6 | By: kathy a on February 16, 2010 at 02:46 PM

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oh, the dates.  that has happened a number of times—not that particular dream, but feeling off and finally figuring out that it was a date.

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