Been absent from CCF for a few months....been taking care of school among other things.
So it starts here. Last month was my grandmother's birthday. She would have been 99, but passed shortly before her 93rd birthday in 2010. A week after her passing was the first week of 6th grade for me, so I was about 11.
Regardless of that, she was the person in my life who made me who I am. When I was born, she flew immediately from Florida to Ohio the day I was born and got there the next day to see me in the hospital. I was born with a shortage of oxygen in the brain, but nothing that affected me long term. She spent a good week here, and eventually ended up moving back to Cleveland after a long time, and went right into an apartment. She lived there until she went to the nursing home where the best of my memories were. When I was younger, we used to go to the mall every month or so, pick her up from the nursing home, get in the car and drive a block away to the mall and spend the day there. She'd always give me pennies to throw into the water fountains there, because she knew I loved coins, and she just enjoyed it, so she would save up all her pennies that she could get from the food cafe at her nursing home... We would always get ice cream cones at the mall, that's another thing that was significant that I remember.
Anyways, in the last 12 months of her life, she lost her brother at age 95. She grew up in a family of something around 7 siblings, and being the only girl & youngest growing up during the depression, was very tough. This one brother was the closest to her, as she would see him everyday. She went downhill, and started to loose her memory, very bad. The funeral came around in mid August, a week after her passing, and I couldn't mentally handle going. I wrote a beautiful song on the piano, and had it played on the loud speakers during the funeral. According to my mom, it had everyone in tears. I also wrote a memorial speech about her and her impact (I was 11 when I wrote this, keep in mind) and my mom also read this at the funeral.
I visit her every month other than winter, sometimes as much as twice a month. On her birthday for the past several years I've been laying flowers on her grave.
Now...flashback to present. Almost everytime I am there, I feel her presence, and something happens later on the week after I visit her, henceforth what happened in this situation. I usually find a coin, multiple coins, that are better than normal. Not things you'd find everyday.
So it was her birthday on the 10th of November. I got the usual bouquet of flowers and placed it on her grave, talked to her and left.
What happened next was incredible, as this has happened before in previous times I've gone there and visited & talked to her. I've found silver coins in coinstars (my total is 28 silver coins found in coinstars this year, that's for another day)... I left, several days later, I went to the coinstar that I go to every day where I've found all these coins. This place is a jackpot, as I've found well over 30+ silver coins there, henceforth why I go there EVERY day I can.
This time was different, I had a weird feeling as I walked in. Checked the coin star, and there it was, a handful of coins...not an unusual sight to see at this place.
Grabbed all the coins up, left, and started walking to my car. Happened to look down at my hand of coins I just grabbed, and saw what blew me away....a 1999
$5 GOLD EAGLE and I just about lost it at that point in time. I scrambled back to my car, some woman saw me, must have thought I was crazy, and slammed the door and screamed with so much joy.
In my hand, the gold coin, and happened to be several tokens, a 1947
Wheat cent, and another silver dime...LOL
So I figured it would only be right, and I went right down (15 minute drive) over to her grave and thanked her. Next day came around, I decided to go to the bowling alley arcade. Went to go cash in a dollar bill, and out popped a 1964 silver quarter....
Can't tell you how crazy it's been, it's insane.
Here's some pics.
Posted 12/15/2016 7:32 pm
