Monday

Dear Diary,

I have to say with our daughter home this weekend it was really quiet except for yesterday when everyone went to the movies and I decided to stay home. I was alone enjoying my time alone with the pets and doing some light house cleaning. As I was tidying up the house I thought about some of the ghosts who have come through our home. I then made the statement out loud that it was a good time for me to talk to anyone who wanted to make themselves known. Right after I said that I stepped out into the kitchen and there in the doorway were two ghosts standing there not moving but staring directly at me.

It kind of surprised me that it happened so quickly and I averted my gaze only to be curious enough to look back at them. Sure enough they were still there not moving but continuing to watch me. I would describe these two as looking like a clear thick vapor on a hot road. I could see through them but it was distorted. One was taller than the other and I got the feeling that one of them was a child who stood closer to me. I greeted them realizing that I had asked them to make themselves known so I didn't want to be rude. In a welcoming voice I said out loud that I would be happy to talk with them but neither of them moved or made a sound. Okay I thought, have it your way, and I went about my cleaning in the other room taking a different route so not to disturb them.

When I came back into the kitchen they were still there as if no time had passed still standing in the same positions not moving. This made me wonder why they were there. When everyone came home from the movies the two ghosts were gone and I didn't see them again until I was climbing into bed.That is when I felt as if I was being watched and then saw the taller one staring at me from just inside the doorway of the bathroom materializing and then disappearing several times letting me know she was there. I gave up trying to communicate with her saying goodnight then turning out the lights and going to sleep. This morning I haven't seen either one of them.

Photographs by Steve Noyce - Tuscany, Italy

Friday

Dear Diary,

I am looking forward to the weekend. We don't have anything planned so it will be quiet around the house. As for the sighting of ghosts around me and the house it is just the usual. There hasn't been a lot of talking from them as of late mostly because I haven't been listening as I have had my mind on other things. That doesn't mean that I still don't catch glimpses of whiffs of white smoke every once in a while moving in and around the house where I am.

Yesterday as I was sitting down in the office working on sending out some emails someone brushed by me making themselves known. I let them know that I knew that they were there but needed to focus on what I was doing. I didn't run into them again until I was in the living room taking a small break picking up pet toys and again they brushed by me,
this time on my right side. Again I let them know that I knew that they were there but preoccupied with all the things that needed to be accomplished by the day's end taking over my thoughts. They left me alone after that...

Today is a better day to communicate as I am free to take the time to talk or work with anyone who wants to make themselves known. Also as the weekend ascends some of the stress of the week is already starting to lighten up giving me time to pay more attention to the other side.

Photograph by Steve Noyce - Tuscany, Italy

Wednesday

Dear Diary,

I was visiting the other day with a dear friend of mine and one of our adventures together was brought up as we revisited the past. This is one of my friends who I know I can call when can't see my way out of a storm. On that particular occasion I was needing help moving some things out of a space and she volunteered to help me. This was some years ago. The place was a church which had been having some activity at that time. On top of that we ended up having to go in the late evening because of syncing up schedules.

As it happened I was also grieving so I didn't think about our energy affecting what was going on around us. It took everything I had to keep focused on the task ahead. My friend who hears the other side discovered that she had multiple talents that evening when we went to engage in our task. I don't remember a whole lot of what was going on just moving things and getting really strange looks from my friend who seemed to be really uncomfortable. She was just wanting to help me and trying to get the project over with so we could go home.

It was later that she confided in me that when we went into the church she could hear the voices of children talking in the atrium. Then my sadness started attracting all kinds of attention from the other side who were hungry for that kind of lower level energy so when they found the source they tried to jump on me only to slide off. When they couldn't get to me they saw her and started to jump onto her as her fear of them started to come up from watching them around me. Ghosts and entities came out of nowhere. Because I was trying to stay focused on what I was doing the only thing I noticed that evening was a large dark black smokey mass passing the door in the hallway several times only to pause long enough to look in. Each time I saw it I threw out golden light energy towards the door and it would move on. When it did I went back into my grief and what I was doing.

We did finish the move and my friend told me what had happened after we left. It was much later when I asked my angel guides why the ghosts didn't attach themselves to me since it was my energy attracting them. They explained that I had completely shut down in my own grief and when I did, it closed my energy fields creating a barrier between them and me. My friend who witnessed it all didn't know what was going on and she was thrown into the thick of it. Because I was preoccupied with my own sadness I didn't see or help her. She was also blindsided and hadn't protected herself as our intention was to tackle a project which had nothing to do with ghosts. After we left she ended up taking some visitors home. Later we had to clear her and her home.

The reason I tell this story is that it explains a lot about our emotional energy attracting the other side and how important it is to be mindful of our own energy as our energy affects what comes into our lives. With this knowledge we also know we were not created to live with our all of our fields closed down as I had done when I was grieving. Even though it protected me during that time it also shut me in with my energy and anything else that was trapped inside it with me. This stops the natural process of letting things go so that we can move on. We as energy and physical beings were created to be open as all energy flows in and out as it moves through us to keep our bodies and souls healthy. The practice of learning how to be in the higher energy fields allow us to be invisible to the lower energy beings who can't find us when we are in the higher realms.

The other part of this story is that it is always good to also learn to protect ourselves when we are in those lower energy states so that we don't attract the lower energy side and don't expose others to that kind of torment. With the protection we don't shut our energy fields off but have a safe space to still release what needs to be let go of.

Photographs by Steve Noyce - Italy

Monday

Dear Diary,

It was a fun weekend with the children home to celebrate Father's day. Since it was hot and very humid we decided to go see a movie. After finding our seats and having a few minutes before the movie started I took advantage of that time to look around. It was then when I noticed down the aisle to my right two white smoky images moving toward some seats. It kind of caught me off guard but made me laugh out loud seeing them. I had forgotten how much the other side likes movies.

The only other time I saw ghosts this past weekend and was paying attention was when it was quiet in the house and we were sitting down hanging out in the living room. We had a man (ghost) come out of the dining room to the edge of the living room where he stopped as if only checking to see what we were doing. After seeming to fill his curiosity he went back into the dining room. I have not seen him around before so he is a new.

The ghosts tend to come and go and some don't stick around very long. I usually don't ever see them again after they leave except for our family who have passed but they also come and go. Sometimes they just are there letting us know they are around or they will contact us in some way when there is need for it. My grandmother, when she is around, we can feel her presence
and she always leaves dimes in the strangest places. It is her way of getting our attention when she is with us and we aren't paying attention. My dad leaves pennies which has a personal meaning between my mom and him. He also likes to show up when you least expect it. Once I thought it would be funny to sneak up on someone and surprise them as a joke. Just as I was about to pounce I heard him in my right ear say very clearly all three of my names in a very serious tone. It just Ruined the moment! In fact it all backfired and I was the one surprised!

Photographs by Steve Noyce - Tuscany, Italy

Friday

Dear Diary,

I woke up in the middle of the night with the intense feeling as if someone was standing next to the bed. When I finally opened my eyes it felt as if someone had crushed all of my bones. I rolled over and woke my husband up who touched my forehead. He quickly got up and found a thermometer taking my temperature that registered 102 degrees. In a daze I gratefully accepted the Tylenol and water that he offered. Then after a while he came back to bed finding a comfortable position facing the other way and falling asleep.

I laid there in the dark trying desperately to go back to sleep but still had the sensation that someone was watching me on my side of the bed. I didn't want to open my eyes still hoping that sleep would mercifully take me away. Then I heard a voice that wasn't my husband's say, "There now, you will feel better." In my mind I acknowledged that someone was in the room then fell into a deep sleep, sleeping through the rest of the night. This morning when I awoke the fever had broken and my husband was getting ready for work. After checking on me he left and the house seemed quiet except for the pets who were letting me know they were ready for breakfast.

Photograph by Ana - Tuscany, Italy

Wednesday

Dear Diary,

Well, it has been really quiet around the house. I haven't noticed as much activity as we had over the weekend which makes me wonder if it has anything to do with the new moon last night. One thing I can say is that with all the rain this morning its has been very peaceful around the house. Even the pets went back to their beds after breakfast.

Yesterday I did have one visitor coming in and out of my office but only when I was working at the computer. A long thin white smoky image would appear and disappear a foot away to the right of my screen. They never showed themselves longer than a second but it kept happening so I wasn't able to ignore them. I knew someone was there as that old feeling of being watched washed over me as I tried to concentrate on my work. The whole time I sensed it wasn't me that they were interested in but what I was writing. It wasn't until I stopped working that they finally left and I didn't have any other contact with them after that.  

Photograph by Steve Noyce

Monday

Dear Diary,

As it turned out my friend didn't get to accompany me to the meeting to hear the talk on Mediumship.  I missed my friend but really enjoyed myself at the meeting. The host was very gracious and made sure to introduce all the guests so that we all would feel comfortable. I was also very delighted to see one of my teachers there and caught up with her and her husband.

The speaker was very informative and I felt that she was highly knowledgeable about the subject. At the end she answered questions about mediumship and didn't blink an eye as she was very thorough and honest with the audience. As I was sitting there I became a little curious wanting to see what was also going on on the other side. With that many people in one room there is always something happening. I opened my fields and immediately saw a man (ghost) sitting behind the speaker cross-legged, with a cowboy hat, facing the other direction. He also had a blanket wrapped around him. Every once in awhile he would turn his head and look at the audience to see if we were all still there. I couldn't help but smile as he seemed very serious.

Another man (ghost) was standing next to the speaker to her left and seemed to be really interested in what she was saying. I closed my fields down to make sure what I was seeing was really there and when I opened them back up they were both still there. As I was sitting there listening some movement caught my eye and I quickly looked down below the chair in front of me where a women was sitting. There under her chair were two animals (ghosts) which looked like someone's pets playing. Enchanted I watched them, as I listened to the speaker, enjoying their fun. After awhile I looked up and was startled as there was a women (ghost) hovering over the two women sitting in front of me to my right. It caught me so off guard that I let out a loud breath almost laughing out loud. After that I decided that the other side was too much of a distraction and closed down my fields.

Later that evening when I got home it was late and my husband was already asleep. The house was buzzing with energy. As I walked through the house it felt as if I was being inspected as white whiffs of smokey images followed me into the bathroom and kept me company as I was getting ready for bed. I slept through the night without any interruptions but the rest of the weekend they were certainly busy coming and going through the house making themselves known that they were there. With my family home for the weekend and friends wanting to get together I didn't have a lot of spare time but knew the ghosts were just doing their own thing...

Photographs by Steve Noyce

Friday

Dear Diary,

I am so excited! I got an email notice the other day about a someone speaking about Mediumship in Richland Hills. Being someone who has visitations from ghosts it is always intriguing to meet someone close by who is working in the field. A dear friend of mine who is afraid of her own gift offered to come to the meeting with me tonight. This is a big step for my friend towards being interested in meeting others besides just hanging out with me to explore her own gift. It will be curious to see what unfolds tonight.

As far as what is going on with us at home, I did have some pranksters yesterday. I was walking on our treadmill and a group of three ghosts decided it would be fun to talk all at once. What I heard was three individuals telling me about themselves at one time. When I asked for them to speak one at a time two of them left the room but the other decided to show me what he looked like. I got a quick image of a man dressed in bell bottom blue jeans, platform shoes and a nice light brown shirt with some kind of pattern on it. He just smiled and then left the room. His smile was that teasing kind of look you might get from someone who is enjoying themselves. I continued walking...

Yesterday the woman in the living room came by making her presence known. If I acknowledged her she would leave me alone, if I didn't acknowledge her then she made sure I knew she was there by walking up against me or through me. She doesn't talk to me but lets me know I am rude by not recognizing her being in the room.

Photographs by Angelique

Wednesday

Dear Diary,

I was visiting a friend of mine the other day and while I was at her home a young man (a ghost) in his early twenties came up to me. We were sitting in her dinning room and he just started talking about his life. I stopped my conversation with my friend as it was hard to hear her over him. She and I have been friends for a long time so she understood when I told her that we had a visitor.

 I addressed him and asked him to go on as it seemed that he needed to say something important. He then looked at me in a funny way and stopped what he was saying only to gaze at me as if it finally registered that I could hear and see him. Then he became shy and his image started to scramble and he left the room. I then continued my conversation with my friend since he was gone.

Later last night I was sitting in my living room enjoying watching "House of Cards" with my son. My son who is in film school was explaining the dynamics of the plot and while we were watching a women (ghost) walked up to me from the side. This was my time with my son so I didn't acknowledge her. She then came as close to me as possible without touching me. When that didn't get my attention she went right though me. It tickled and I told her to come back another time as that was my time with my son. She didn't come back.  I am still working on boundaries.


Photograph 1 by Becca
Photograph 2 by Steve Noyce

Monday

Dear Diary,

It has been a busy weekend. I have been visiting my friend Robin while she has been sitting on the roof of a church in Arlington, TX. It was funny when I was leaving on Saturday to visit her that morning a man (ghost) was standing in the kitchen watching me grab my keys to leave. I was in a hurry so I didn't stop to chat. Then as I was backing out in the driveway another man (ghost) was standing in the yard watching me drive away. It kind of surprised me but again I was leaving and didn't stop.

When I got to the church I visited with the volunteers and then went to find the water fountain in one of the side hallways. That is when I ran right into another ghost standing in the atrium. He wasn't looking at me and seemed to be preoccupied watching Robin's team greeting people dropping off food for the "Robin on the Roof" event. When he did finally notice me (ghost) he gave me a look before he disappeared as if saying, "See ya!"  I went on to quench my thirst and then went back out to hang out with the volunteers.

Yesterday was Sunday and I stopped by the church a few times to check on my friend and see if she needed anything. I didn't notice any other ghost activity until last night around 10 pm. I was there when they were locking up the church and had climbed down from the ladder to go home. It was then that caught a ghost leaning out of the window looking to see what we were doing. It made me laugh and this time I said, hello but he leaned back into the closed window of the church. It reminded me of someone leaning out from a pew trying to get a better view of someone walking by. I said my goodbye to my friend on the roof for the night and then went on my way.

Today I hope my friend reaches her goal. It's getting really hot on the roof with the Texas heat and it is even hotter on the roof with the heat radiating off the shingles. She is getting close to her goal...

Photographs by Angelique

Friday "Robin on the Roof" & Chakras

Dear Diary,

This morning was exciting as my friend Robin went up on the roof for her "Robin on the Roof" event. She goes up on the roof every year to help bring awareness to the hunger in the world. This year she is hoping to get 150,000 pounds of food donated to the cause which will be distributed to the food pantries and food banks. Donations can also be made on the "Robin on the Roof" website. Every dollar buys 5 pounds of food and will help those in need. She likes to do this event at the beginning of Summer because most people donate during the holidays but it is the Summer when the kids are home from school that the food banks and pantries are low on supplies.

While I was there with her I had a chance to visit with another friend about Chakras who wanted to know more about them and how they work with communicating. I explained to her that we all have these energy centers inside us as they help with the energy that flows through us and out of us. When they are spinning the way that they are designed to spin our physical bodies and energy fields are healthy as they maintain themselves.

The sixth Chakra is the third eye which is important because it is associated with clairvoyance. This allows you to see into the other world. The fifth Chakra allows you to hear the other side. The other Chakras have their purposes and were created to help us live as Multi-dimensional beings as we are both physical and spiritual beings. I did suggest that if she really wanted to learn more about the Chakras a good reference is a book called, The Wheels of Life, "the users guide to the Chakra system," by Anodea, Judith Ph.D

Photograph by Ana

Friday "The Full Moon"

Dear Diary,

One thing for sure is that I am a morning person. This morning was particularly beautiful as we watched the sunrise on the porch drinking our coffee. The pets ran around in the flower garden playing and taking care of business. It was a blessing after yesterday's full moon which brought on a lot of phone calls from friends and family who were distressed about one thing or another. The full moon does that... brings
all the things that we need to finish up to the surface.

There is still a lot of activity in the house and I have been hearing bits and pieces of little conversations from the ghosts who come through on their way to who knows where. My fifth chakra is still opened up so that allows me to hear the other side when they are in my energy fields. Nothing that I have heard the last few days was directed towards me. With the full moon affecting the living my focus was not really on the ghosts in the house. Today as the moon phase moves away from the full moon there will be some relief as things start to work themselves out. Who says that the moon doesn't affect us?

Photograph by Ana

Monday "Please Speak English"

Dear Diary,

I awoke last night feeling really thirsty which drove me out of a warm bed. I looked at the clock passing by it and read 3 am. The little dogs heard me scoot out of bed and followed me into the kitchen hoping to get something from the fridge. Unfortunately for them at that hour of the morning I was on a one thought mission which was filling up a glass with water from the cooler by the counter. Finding it I drank greedily as it took awhile to fulfill my thirst. On the way back to bed I did however take the time to scratch a few heads of pleading dogs asking for anything that I had.

As I was laying my head back down hoping to fall asleep I started to hear someone talking in Spanish. Now, if you know me, my mother was very disappointed that I didn't study Spanish in school and that I took French instead, which I loved. Both of our children took French and one is still studying it. So at 3 am in the morning I found it a bit awkward to find myself repeating what I was hearing out loud in whole sentences. It took me a minute to realize that my husband and I were not alone in the room and the way the words were being expressed they weren't talking to me, meaning there was someone or others there with us.

"Great." I thought knowing that the pets had already gone to their beds and snuggled up in their blankets. It was early and I was a bit envious that I could hear my husband breathing softly in his sleep undisturbed. I decided to go ahead and acknowledge the ghost in the room in the few words of Spanish that I know and as soon as I did the talking stopped. Frustrated I expanded my energy out into the room looking for my guest and anyone else who might have been there. Sure enough I found two other energies besides the talker that I could feel backing out of my energy fields. I kept my energy expanded through out the whole room until everyone left. I wasn't trying to drive them out, I only wanted to let them know I was there. From their response it felt like I had crashed their little party and they were not in the mood to talk to the living. In a way I was glad, as Spanish is not a language that I am good at. I closed down my fields and tried to go back to sleep which took another hour since I was wide awake. 

This morning I tried to sleep in but could hear the pets getting up with my husband sending him off to work and then they came to wake me up for breakfast. I didn't mind but still a little sleepy from being awake last night. I didn't see or hear anyone in the house as I got my tea and was padding around doing my morning chores but that can always change...