All In The Family
Sitting here in my studio, I am surrounded by pictures of family. Both my grandmothers especially catch my eye today. I can feel them both present and excited about my post today. People often ask me where my abilities come from. I don’t usually have a good answer for that, but as I really think about my grandmothers today, I realize that it comes from both sides of my family. My Mother’s mother, Annie Ellen who went by Ellen, often told a story about an experience she had while visiting the south of France. She was on a bus tour to a tourist site she had never been to before. When they arrived at the site, another visitor asked her in French if she knew where the washrooms were. She said that for the next few minutes she was a young woman from France and was exactly able to tell the visitor the correct directions, in French, to a place she (Ellen) had never been to before. My grandmother also did not speak French. During her experience, which I believe was a past life experience, Elle...