The Women in My Maternal Lineage

The women in my maternal lineage,

at least the ones I know about,

seem to have a strong dose of psychic ability

in their makeup.

One of my aunts was living in Connecticut

during the Second World War

with her military husband

and got on a train across country 

to her hometown in eastern Oregon

because she had a feeling

that something was wrong at home.

She was right -- her older sister 

had gone missing.

Everything turned out fine,

but Mona's intuition was spot on.

Her daughter, my cousin, experiences

a disturbance in the force when a loved one dies.

Sometimes they appear before her at what she later learns

was the moment of their death,

often to deliver a message.

When I was in high school,

one day when my mother was 10 minutes late

getting home from work,

I waited (in a state of agitation)

for the State Patrol to call to tell me

that she had been in an accident

and what hospital she'd gone to.

They called about 5 minutes after my nervous system

went to high alert.

Come to think of it,

it's not just limited to the females of the line.

Both my sons have strong intuitions,

though one of them seems more uncomfortable 

with the gift than the other.

The dreams he had, about things

that later happened,

were profoundly disturbing to him.

"Mom," he said. "Don't you think that's weird?"

"No," I answered. "When I was your age,

I was so used to that happening

that I just assumed everyone did it."

I haven't ruled out the possibility

that I'm living in more than one universe.

I know for sure that I walk between worlds.