On Death and Dying
Mom
?. its funny what you said about the bird.. when my mom died, we had this black and white bird hanging around the house as well and we named her after my mom (I always assumed it was a she).. she had one good leg (the other was crooked). The reason we though it was a SIGN my mom was still here is because of this story: I got remarried in 1992 to Greg and two weeks after we married my mom and her two friends went on a holiday to the Gold Coast (here in Aus). They were walking across the road (green pedestian light) and all three of them got mowed down by a bus which was driven by an incompetent driver. The first two friends were lucky and only suffered minor injuries, broken arm, scratches etc but my mom lost her leg. So of course had to live the rest of her life with 1 leg.. she eventually died of breast cancer in 2000 but when we saw the bird.. well ? it was her!!