Twenty One

[poliphilo]

 The number I keep seeing is 21.

I glance at the clock and it says 20.21. I glance again and it says- O  joy of joys- 21.21.

1921 was the year both my parents were born. I take all these instances of 21 cropping up as a sign that they're still knocking around, taking an interest. This is what the dead do. 

A thing that reinforces this opinion is that my mother is always in my dreams these days. She's not doing anything in particular. and she's not the person she dwindled into in old age, but a vigorous energy being (as we all are under this human clothing) who happens to be there.

We weren't close when she was alive- but then again, I'm beginning to see that, actually, we were.....

Comments

[paserbyp]

1926 was the year both my parent were born. My mother was gone in 2011 and father in 2013. How about your parents?

[poliphilo]

My father died in 2004. My mother died in 2022- at the age of 101.

[paserbyp]

Wow! 101!