GHOSTS? Nope, don’t believe in them,. but DO believe in Angels! I’ve had so many tragic things happen to me and been to the brink of death and back so many times, I’ve seen the far away white light and know it’s not dying or death but just what happens to your brain when you have a near death experience. Sure, okay, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion about these things-I WILL give you that. My own feelings about it, however, are that God may send an angel to watch over you and one standing by in case he decides it’s your time to “go” and live with Jesus in heaven!

Yea, I know. Lots of people think it’s corny and don’t believe it but it takes way more time and space to write about in this commnt section. I tend to write BOOKS for comments and bore everyone to pieces. Goshdarnit, I don’t even have a blog any more. Many reasons why. I still like to read some, though but this is the first serious one I’ve taken up with in quite awhile., I keep up with Kelly’sKorner b/c that’s where I found Compassion International and decided to sponsor two children-one in Indonesia &one in the really bad parts of the Dominicn Republic and LOVE that among one of their main goals is to teach them about God! There are scads of places in the USA but not any that can really honestly hold up to the standards of Compassion Int’l. and none that really teach the kids about God or the Bible! I would love to help children in my own country so I help through out church and we not only reach out to kids in our own community but all over so that’s the best I could do on that and of course I help support many animal rights groups. Anything to help the helpless-whether it be animals or humans!!

Ok-see? Get off on a jag about something totally unrelated to the topic of ghosts!! I guess it comes from how I was raised and my Mother didn’t believe in Ghosts and she was a strong Christian woman and she DID believe in angels, though!!

I believe our daughter who’s no longer living may be one that God picked to become and angel, too…who knows? Since I haven’t met anyone yet that died and stayed in heaven for a long time and then came back to give a report on how things actually work (your spirit) that’s in heaven, I can’t say much for certain but I do feel like I’ve had angles come to me many times and helped me through some times I may not have lived through if God hadn’t sent them to rescue me when he has his hands a bit fill doing miracles and so many other things.

See why I don’t have a blog any more? Lots of reasons, really.Some people didn’t like what I had to say about things like this when I was asked about my religion and what I believed. I wasn’t going to lie about it and lots of people get totally turned off when youj speak your mind. Also, I think sometimes people begin to either hate you or envy you if you grew up living such a lavish live as I did. I had wonderful parents but from the time I was 5 yrs old until after my mother died, my father owned the only Ford Company in Austin, TX and we lead a very interesting and wonderful life. I had a GREAT childhood and living in Austin and my father being the wonderful person he is-knew SO MANY PEOPLE it was unreal and he never met a stranger and nobody ever disliked him!! NOBODY!! He would give you the shirt off of his back if he thought you wanted or needed it and he had such a great personality but a great head for business and he was blessed enough that what he chose to invest in when my brother and I were just small, grew into a huge business and he also owned Truck City in S. Austin and ran it, too. My brother and I both went to school with Senator’s children and then when you start telling people things they want to know about your childhood, some think you are lying about it and some can be very hateful and once I finally opened up about my childhood and about how great it really was-and that we also not only lived in a gorgeous mansion behind big stone walls but we also had a gorgeous home built on Lake Travis there and when both my parents were gone, I inherited everything but I had already been given a lot before my parents died. My father only lived to 56 yrs old and had a massive heart attack and my mother lived until 1999 but the last 9 yrs of her life were horrible and she really didn’t know what was going on.

I thought I’d DIE when my father left this world and so did my mother!! My brother had already been run over and killed back when he was only 21 yrs old and I was just 19 yrs old so I was then the only living child left and became even closer to my parents-if that’s even possible. I STILL believed in angles back then and believed my brother was one but never told anyone about it except my parents…and they also believe he was one, too. Way too much to go into but I honestly don’t believe in ghosts-never have seen one but believe I have seen angels…maybe b/c of my upbringing and maybe b/c of my religion. I honestly don’t know why but my gmother on my mother’s side also believe in Angles and told me so many times.

Again, people seemed to at least like and read my blog on Xanga (oh wow-that seems like so long ago and long before blogs were the rage and I spent a lot of time posting pictures and all and I will NEVER go to that trouble/time again!! I first started out on my blog from the perspective of after my husband decided we’d move out of the Dallas Metroplex to the country in E. Texas where he has a big family and he raised cattle and we also raised gorgeous Polish-Arabians that were Dapple Gray’s!! I told a lot of stories from studing them first hand and from raising them and also I told stories that people told me made them LOL soooooo hard and some that made them cry till they were about sick!! I understood!! It finally got to be way too much for me to handle with the cattle-and having 4 sets of twin Brangus born-and wow-having twins is N.E.V.E.R. a good thing-or wasn’t for us! I had the most tear jerking stories ever to tell about them…and trying to raise them. I can’t even begin to tell you what some of those times were like and I was way too involved with the little heifers and little bulls born and they grow up way too fast-and then they get sold and it breaks your heart if you invest time taking care of them-and I swear to you-ever cow, heifer, baby bull born and all grown cows and bulls each have their own personality!! WITHOUT A DOUBT I can assure you that they DO have their own personality and also a “pecking order” with all of them!! They ALSO discrimate by color-I know alllll about that-and have seen it and seen things to prove it cried so hard over one of my favorite cows that was a light colored one that was born into the herd that got soooo abused that my husband had to separate her and she was sooooooo lonely and then she got so poor and refused to eat-and then–she had twins…and it almost killed her-but she lived but wow-I made it my duty to see to it she lived and I treated her like a pet-and just interaction with her-helped her soooooo much and I believe gave her the will to live-see? Nobody believes all of these things…and think I make them up!! Trust me-they are true-and I have pics of all of the animals that meant so much to me-which were a lot of them…but it still nearly killed me when we sold each one-or ones we had to…it put me in the bed many times b/c I took it so hard!! And people that live down here think people like me (I was called a “city gal” and not worth two cents to sooooo many country people who live down here) thought it was quite ridiculous for me to have ANY feelings about the animals I loved so much and took care of and tried to save and care for!! Most of my hubbies family thought I was “off”~!! lol Yeah, no kidding-they thought I was really crazy for even caring about the cows, calves and let me know so and it was reeeeeeeeally hard on me-but I hung in there-and kept a journal of it online and also blogged about it and everyone seemed to love hearing about it. But once I got sick with 3 rare lung diseases and couldn’t go out in the huge working barn or even to see to and about our horse we were raising (we had a lot of help with them thankfully. Really good people who were the best in this area to train them, etc) but once I got sick and stopped telling stories not only about our cattle and horses, but about the two bobcats that took up with our place-that are still so dangerous-and I changed modes and started talking about what a great childhood I had and what all I got to do and how great it was-and through college years-then people didn’t want to hear it and didn’t seem to like knowing I had the freedom to go and do whatever I wanted to-and I felt the rocks hurled at me-and words cut deep when people are mean to you online for whatever reason they decided to mistreat you. So I finally decided I had more than enough to do-and with time and age and also being so sick, I quit blogging and never took it up again-but started reading some blogs my family members have but honestly are so boring b/c I already know what they’re going to blog about and know each pic that’s going to be on their blog-and found it boring and started reading random blogs-and found it so rare to find reeeeally interesting ones and one that also made me laugh out loud-plus interesting! I still keep in touch with Kelly’sKorner b/c of Compassion and b/c I think she’s really a sweet young woman and I love her love of God and how she tries to help the lost-and will state so and maybe not like that-but that’s what she wants most-besides her family and I was taught that God came first and your family second and that’s how I raised my family and exactly how my parents raised me and my brother (even though he never got to have a family).

Ok-I have said more than about not believing in Ghosts….of course. As I told Rebekah, I don’t know how to do “short” anything…and I jump all over the place and I really have nothing interesting to write about now and won’t ever go back and start over with the animals and stories everyone said I should write a book about-b/c so many DO make you laugh and some DO make you cry-but I honestly believe anyone reading a word I wrote would just throw all the papers up in the air and they’d fall to the ground alllllllll over the room and floor!! To be put into the trash eventually!! I’m not a writer!! Also, with age plus 3 strokes (even though they say the were mini ones-wow I’d hate to have 3 that weren’t mini b/c I had to learn to speak, walk, talk, write and do soooo many things again-so I am happy those were just “mini” ones!! I think any worse, and I’d be sitting somewhere staring into space like you probably are reading this….or want to!) plus I can’t see that great any more b/c of high blood pressure and I also type soooooooo freaking fast that I make a ton of mistakes…on this comment section-it’s tiny print and then when it prints out-it’s larger..they could at least make it bigger here while I’m typing!! But I’m typing sooooo fast-and cannot keep up with my brain like I used to. I taught Classical Violin and Classical Piano for 25 yrs!! You will type fast if you have long fingers that played those instruments for that long. I write a lot of music, too, and I wake up hearing music in my dreams and get up and write down what I’ve heard-and our son does the same thing!! Not going there-though-this is way too long all she wanted probably was for a person to say “Yes” or “No” to if they belive in ghosts or not.

Ok-my answer is “No”~!! 🙂
I absolutely love Potholes and Pantyhose-I tell you she makes me laugh so hard and I love everything she has to say-and I love very interesting people that lets her mind go to places others never would!! She’s brilliant and beautiful and I just wish I could write as well as she does, but I love to read and don’t blog so I don’t suppose it matters. She craked me up the first time I read anything on her blog-and have been hooked since!! She probably would love to kick my rear out-and she just may do that if I don’t stop writing crap like this!! It’s just my life-though…lol!!

Praying for all those who need it or want it-I say unspoken prayers all the time-and hope if you need an angel to help guide you-that you’ll have one. And as for those who see ghosts…good luck!! I’d run~!!
Dee