(ghostly presences never far from me nigh Xmas annually–the missing 2/3s of Spiritus: Glen and Dean, two of Edmonton’s finest English teachers and poets)
…………………………………………………………
connecting you with many you have known. And suddenly today you’ll wonder “Whatever happened to…?” or “I haven’t heard anything for a long time about…?” One of those passing bubbles of thought or just some vague sense that the person might be in peril or not be well.
And inevitably, you will hear via the grapevine or in see an obit in the newspaper confirming your inexplicable sudden intuition. And it makes you wonder about some kind of connectedness that takes place in the air, so to speak. An awareness of presence or absence beyond the more immediate conscious swirl or calm of your daily life.