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Marty, that is a wonderful message. It must have made you feel wonderful. I know when I got a wink from Bob I felt warm and comfortable all over. Hugs......Sue

Marty,
Oh what a great wink! David thinks of the greatest ways to let you know he is always with you and loves you so very much.
Hugs,
Kathy

Many years ago I strongly considered the concept of "winks" and other unexplained "paranormal" episodes to be in the province of superstition and medieval thinking with no basis in reality. After all, I spent many years training in scientific method and was inclined to pay no attention to phenomena which could not be explained by direct observation and the application of logical thought. As I have gotten older and more open in my acceptance of ideas which once I would have considered to be idiotic, "winks" have achieved new reality. As the years pass I have experienced first hand events and phenomena which cannot meet the demands of scientific validity yet which I now believe to be true. I relate one such episode.

Many years ago my wife's mother came to visit. She was a intelligent nurse who lived in Ireland and certainly not prone to abnormal thoughts and actions. She appeared at breakfast one morning rather anxious and worried. She related a vivid dream she had. Her house in Ireland was broken into and a valuable grandfather clock and barometer were taken, a window broken and the front door left open. Pat and I laughed it off as a bad dream and perhaps related to too much gin and tonic. At this point the phone rang. It was a neighbor in Ireland who reported that her house had been vandalized, the front door left open, and a clock and wall barometer missing. This episode was a teaching moment for me. I now realized that we as mere humans are not privy to what may or may not be reality. Marty, your wink is as real as anything else that we as humans are capable of experiencing. I still await one of my own.
Marty

Marty, I'd guess that you HAVE had winks, but didn't recognize them... Stay open to the 'impossible.'
hugs....marty

Lovely post Marty! I hope you do get a wink ophth. We want to hear all about it when u do.

Hi Opth and everyone! It has been a while since I posted here, but I do come by and read. My mother experienced what we called a Premonition a couple of weeks before my accident, except it was about the wrong person. She had a dream that my brother was trapped under a porch and, while sleep walking She went out in the rain, wearing only a night gown and was trying to get him out. She woke up all wet and dirty. Two weeks later a porch fell on me. She said if she were going to try to watch over someone to prevent anything happening, it would have been my brother because I wasn't even in the dream.

The evening of the day they delivered Harold's ashes to me, a battery operated door bell that he used to call me if he needed something---rang three times. I looked for it and found it on a book shelf, over in the corner of the bedroom. No one, not even the dogs could have caused it to go off. There have been others too but they could be explained away by skeptics I suppose. No one could explain that away, at least not to my satisfaction. Nancy

Nancy! Good to read your reply and to know you're still here!
Aren't those little 'incidents' wonderful?!

I want a "wink" so desperately.

For me, "winks" come when I am focused on something else but emotionally open... Judi and Marty, you may be surprised...