I'm Unsure What this Memes

I’ve been thinking about my sister lately. My sister is always on my mind, there’s no question about that, but lately, I’m thinking about her SO much. She was such an important part of my life and I still have the urge to text her and call her. I'm unsure if I'm having these remarkably strong feelings about her because I miss her tremendously, because I’m feeling so lousy, because it’s coming up to spring, because I keep seeing crooked pictures in my house, or all/some of the above. My sister was a unique and incredible soul. You can read a little about her in the birthday post I wrote for her some years back. Incidentally, you have no idea how heartbreaking it is to write about her in the past tense.

What’s that? Why do crooked pictures make me think of my sister? Every so often, for no real reason, we would text each other this meme. I previously mentioned this briefly here.

Any variation of this meme would suffice. One of us would send it and we'd laugh and laugh.

Then one day…

I looked at this wall and noticed this:

This is the back wall of my closet- I opened the closet fully so we could put the TV in the little nook. Absolutely no one goes in there. We have to move the TV out to dust and sweep. I will straighten the photo, and invariably it gets crooked again. For reference, the photo has been there since about 2014-2015. It was always straight because believe me, I would have noticed if it wasn’t. Even if my eye wasn’t attuned to such things, there is a piece of wood on the wall that used to hold up a closet shelf that accentuates straight (or crooked) lines.

 

So take a wild guess when this started happening? You got it, sometime after my sister departed this life.

Y’all know that I don’t believe in coincidence and that I do believe I have visitors. I previously wrote about it, you can read this if you have extra time.

This post was intended to be a prelude to the other part of my story, but if I shared the story in my usual storytelling style, this would be a heckuva long post. So now I have a conundrum; do I stop here and work on the other post, or do I keep going and hope you don’t notice that I’m just using filler to fluff the post? Since I know you are astute, I won’t fluff and fill this piece. I’ll hit “publish” and work on the other story. I'm not positive this is a strong stand-alone piece, but just know that this ties into my next post. Which, incidentally, I intend to write with more regularity than once a year.  

I’d love to hear from you, tell me what (if any) your experiences have been.

 

-LA