authorblog asks: August 27, 2007

this week David asks:
Do you believe in ghosts?

tough to say. i have no personal experience with such things -- and i can't say i am upset about that. my cousins, who i am relatively certain aren't of questionable sanity, swear they lived with one. they say his name was Eddy. he wore a red & black plaid shirt, and suspenders held up his pants. he would hang out mostly in the front room of the house, looking out the window, as if waiting for or watching for someone. they didn't say he ever moved things, but that sometimes the lights would flicker when he was in the room. he seemed not to pay much attention to my older cousin, just sort of accepted her being around, but he didn't seem fond of her younger sister. once he frowned at her & bared his teeth! oh, and lest you think they were children with vivid imaginations, they were both well into their twenties when this occurred!

so... do i believe in ghosts? i've never seen one. but that doesn't mean they don't exist. i believe in many things i cannot see. i believe that many things are possible. and i believe that there are many mysteries in this world that we cannot explain. it's easy to discount that which we do not understand, but inability to comprehend does not boil down to impossibility.

bottom line: i think i believe in their possibility more than in their specific existence... and i am also quite all right with not knowing for sure.