Why Can't I See One Too?

My aunt saw one in her bedroom. A realtor saw one in a house she was selling. Last week, a friend told me about seeing one in a old hotel he was visiting in Bisbee. Gosh darn it, I'd like to see one too! What do I have to do?

I'm talking about ghosts. Spirits. Entities that aren't exactly of our realm but still have some connection to this life here. And the more folks I talk to this year, the more commonplace it seems to be to have seen one. There are shows on television about trying to prove or disprove the existance of ghosts. And didn't I have a ghostbuster visit me too this spring? Well, gee, being's as how interested I am in the supernatural and open to all of this, why haven't I seen one?

I'm certainly not a skeptic. Maybe I embrace the thought of spirits far more than most people. It's not as though I haven't communicated with them. In my meditations, I get messages from those that have died and pass the communications on to their loved ones. That part, to me, seems perfectly plausible and understandble and doesn't "cweep me out!" (Thanks, Sage, for that line). But the thought of actually getting to see one, to communicate on that level. Yeah. That "cweeps me out" a bit. Maybe that's why I haven't been privy to seeing one yet.

The one the realtor saw, she looked out a window in an old house she was selling and saw a man dressed in old time-y clothes sitting at the bottom of the garden with his hat on. She was a far piece from town, out in the country and was waiting for clients to show up and there was nobody around. But here sat a gentleman, who turned to her and nodded his head and raised his hand in a salute. At that moment, the client's car turned into the driveway and she watched the man vanish into the morning air. She felt he was the original owner of the house. And she figured he was there to make sure that whoever bought his home would be good to it. Truth to tell, she was rather blase about it. I was the one who got goosebumps over her story.

So okay, maybe if I were to have an 'encounter', I'd be blase about it too. I could hope. I might be just a touch too 'hyper' to be that cool with it. I'd probably be running around telling everyone I saw what just happened and blogging about it too, of course. So.... now I've opened myself up to the Universe with this request, haven't I? I'm ready for my Encounter. Let me see one and then I'll report to all of you. Hey, if nothing else, it will liven up the blog, won't it?