Nov 20 2020 - Your children creeped you out

 

Christina Carol writes in the New York Times about children saying creepy things like: You're not my real mom and dad.  My first mom and dad died.  You're my second parents. Or this:  The birds look sad.  I think it's because all their parents died.  Followed by:  When am I going to die? Better yet is something like the story about James Leininger from Louisiana who had plane crash nightmares at age 2 (about 60 years ago).  He said he was killed when the Japanese shot down his plane.  All the details he gave have been corroborated.  In the last 60 years, there have been more than 2,000 children who clam to have had past lives.   The person who studies these children is Jim Tucker with his website HERE.  His book is Return to Life and offers accounts of such young children.  From his website, he offers the  Types of Statements a Child Might Make: “You’re not my mommy/daddy.” “I have another mommy/daddy.” “When I was big, I … (used to have blue eyes/had a car, etc)” “That happened before I was in mommy’s tummy.” “I have a wife/husband/children.” “I used to… (drive a truck/live in another town, etc)” “I died … (in a car accident/after I fell, etc)” “Remember when I … (lived in that other house/was your daddy, etc)” Tucker says the memories fade around 6 years of age and the children express a desire to fully embrace the life they're in now. You can read excerpts of these 2 and 3 year old statements at BuzzFeed HERE. Or go to Ranker HERE.   There's even one statement about a person who was an alien and decided to try out being a human. They are compellingly short snippets.  So curious - wouldn't that be something to investigate alongside Jim Tucker. Today's picture continues our Seasonal colours - beautiful red apples 'decoratin' the trees.  This was taken quite a few years ago at Silmaril Farm here in Grimsby.  It had been unusually warm and they hadn't picked the apples yet.

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Ice in the Garden

I loved the crab apple tree next door - with the ice on the apples, they looked like candy apples ready to eat.  Here are a few of the images.

Last Fruit Standing

These rows of old apple trees are near Ralph Suttell's place in Beamsville.  Ralph is the dahlia grower whose dahlias have been showcased here and on my website.  These photos were taken on the weekend - the first time in December that I can remember everything still looking like autumn.  The late afternoon light made long shadows across the field and turned everything golden.