Apologies, I am all over this site like a rash today, probably because I am on my own in the house for the first time since ‘it’ happened.
I decided to tidy the garden. When I stepped outside there was a large black feather standing upright in the lawn, the sharp end sticking in the ground. The soil was dry and rock-hard. I thought that was a bit unlikely and left it there.
I gave up smoking 12 years ago but I do use an e-cigarette, especially when I feel stressed. As we all know, there is nothing like losing your partner to stress you out. I did some work and then sat on the bench for a rest. My e-cig was not in my pocket, thinking it had fallen out, I searched all over the places I had been working several times, backwards and forwards but couldn’t see it anywhere. It is silver stainless steel about the size of a fountain pen, so fairly easy to spot on the ground. I continued gardening for another hour keeping a lookout. Then I watered all the pots, refilling the watering can from the rainwater butt several times before tidying my tools away. On the last trip to the shed, I saw my cigarette, right in the middle of the patio I had walked over several times. Weird, but the strange thing was that it was covered in damp soil, so it couldn’t have been on the patio all along, it must have dropped onto soil. I looked at the feather, still sticking upright in the lawn waving at me.
I am not really a spiritual person, though I admit that I have begged for signs without much hope because my husband always said that he didn’t believe in an afterlife, saying that when you’re dead, you’re dead. I prefer to keep an open mind. But it all seemed a bit strange.
Xx
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Willow we will never know but if the feather brought you some comfort then go with it. I have a bit of a thing about robins. My partner passed away suddenly while we were away on holiday. When I returned home the next day there was the biggest Robin looking in the kitchen window when I opened the blinds in the morning. May be coincidence but I liked it xx
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Guessing you have rooks? Their feathers tend to land quill-end down and stick in the ground; and all corvids are attracted by bright things, so he may have taken your e-cig and dropped it when he found it wasn’t food. That’s the logical explanation; but the why of it could be anything, and if your rook is bringing you a message, and it helps, then believe it. At my loneliest point, two young feral cats just appeared in the garden out of the blue (John adored cats) and I now feed them every day and talk to them. You have to hang on to whatever comfort you can,
That makes perfect sense, although it’s magpies round here, not rooks. I keep an open mind about such things. I have very friendly robins and lots of wrens, and for the first time in 16 years there are several goldfinches on the roses. I put that down to the fact that I have not sprayed the roses this year and some of them have colonies of aphids. I am so happy to watch the birds that I will not be spraying them again.
Of course, it could be that I do not have cats now, we both liked cats and had 4 at one point. Sadly they all died, one by one and we decided that we wouldn’t have any more because it’s heartbreaking to lose them. If my husband had been ‘in to’ signs I would be more inclined to take comfort, as he wasn’t I am not sure one way or the other.
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My neighbour lost her daughter about 5 yrs ago and Jill the daughter loved butterflies, on the day she died a butterfly flew through her bedroom window . Now butterflies land on her mum. Snda clarvoyant picked her out of a crowd and told her Jill was communicalting through the butterflies to let her know she was still with her. Xxx
It must be very comforting. I guess we all want to believe, it would give us comfort to think they were still around.
I hope your little dog is helping you feel a bit better. It’s a rough road we are having to travel and anything that helps is very welcome. Xx
She is and she isnt bless her, i know she isnt getting the best of me. I dont think anything helps if i am honest i wish there was. I hope youvare feeling better. Xxx