I am a great believer in signs….I am always talking to God, the Universe and the ‘forces’ unseen, asking for guidance to questions, directions, and connection.

And I usually, especially if I am paying attention, get the answers I seek and sometimes even when I’m not asking.

Like yesterday.

I came home from shopping at the local health food store.   When I walked in the house I noticed the painting that is usually above my stove was now on my kitchen counter.   This particular painting is one of my father’s later works’ of art.  And also one of my favorites.

My father died two weeks ago yesterday.  My first thought when I saw the painting was that my son, Michael had taken it down in the hopes of being able to bring it home with him when he left for the day.  He’d been here watching Mark, so I could go to the store.  I was ready to tell him he could forget that idea.  There was no way I would part with that painting.

But when I asked him why the painting was on the counter; he told me that he’d found it on the floor when he’d come in from the barn.

That’s when I knew my Dad had sent me a sign.   There is no way that the picture could have fallen on its own.  Even if one of my cats had walked up there and had knocked it over(which neither one did because they were both outside) there would have been a lot more items to come down with it.  Nothing was disturbed other than the picture.

There have been other signs since he left as well.  My nephew said at the time my dad passed, one of the pictures my dad had painted for him, fell off the wall, right in front of him.

At my father’s house, when he died, all the lights in my parents condo flickered and later we discovered that the neighbors heard a loud boom like a transformer going out, but no one lost power not even for a second.

The electrician that came the next day to fix the power box in the garage told us that he has seen this happen time after time when someone dies.

My mom keeps seeing a shadow floating by her.

My dad was bigger than life when he was here and it appears that he is still a force to be reckoned with.

All I know is that when I realized that he was here………I smiled and said….”Hi Dad.”