Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious

“Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.” - Joan Lowery Nixon , The Haunting This is my favorite annual event. *Dining with Ghosts in Weston, Missouri.  This would almost be the view when the Missouri River port was at the bottom of Main Street in Weston, Missouri.  The view! First time - after 9 or so years of coming to this event - we could see the Missouri River from the top of the hill on Main Street. Flooding earlier in the year and a recent levee failure have given views that are a reminder [almost] of what it used to look like before the channel changed in 1881. KC Star . At one time, the Missouri River was at the bottom of the hill where Jeff's Architectural Salvage and Weston Burley House are now located. Timing this year also offered a chance to see the Orionids . While on the ghost walk, standing outside The Hatchery and listening to the background, a spectacular meteor flashe...

"To those ghosts who are at home and content, self-aware in their altered presence, we are the quirk. Uncomfortable in our evolving density, bumping up against them, spooked by their presence, we demand their reassignment. "Get out of my space!" In that fashion, it's the living who haunt the dead. On with the circus, the dog and pony show and all manner of corporeal entreaties to shove the clearly dead onward in their departure. So be it. Amused ghosts oblige the living their ignorance in believing all phantom encounters imply engagement with one who has somewhere else to depart by masking their imprint until the corporeal has upgraded a density or two. Stubborn ghosts carry on - rattling the shells of living, until they realize the form is the ghost. When formless-in-presence fully, one can opt to lighten up in any form and/or persist with the self-enhancing task of enlightening the densities. Cheers to the Revelation !" - Talking to Nightlights II Wen...