tim's cousin's services were over the weekend...we traveled to CA for them...
Caleb C. Haskell 1978-2006...your wife and family miss you...
the services were unbelievably beautiful.
so we found out that newcastle was his FAVORITE beer...he would not have any other kind...a good friend from childhood got the newcastle logo tattooed on his arm, replacing
"newcastle" with caleb's name and "brown ale" with the years his life spanned.
after the services on the way to the reception, tim and i discussed how tim loves newcastle, but is too frugal to buy it. but that it was on sale this past sunday (the day after caleb passed) and tim bought some. as we were talking about this in the car, a beer delivery truck passed us. now we see these all of the time, budwieser, miller, coors....but the truck was not from these companies...oh no....it was a newcastle truck.
after caleb's father got the news, he sat on his front porch, on the phone to someone offering condolences. a white butterfly landed on the porch next to him, and flapped his wings for the duration of the call, then flew away. later that evening, as family was around, a little girl wandered aabout, munching on crackers. caleb's father told the little girl that he could sure use one. she brought one over and placed it on his knee. it was a butterfly. as we entered the property of the church for the services, a white butterfly circled tim and i. and i am not kidding when i tell you that as we left, in exactly the same spot, a white butterfly passed us. and as we sat in the backyard of caleb's parent's house with friends and family of caleb, another white butterfly visited the backyard.
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Oh my gosh. That's amazing! I believe that our loved ones do that...they give us clues that they're okay, they're happy, and they miss us. I'm sure it was Caleb that was telling you hello, and goodbye.
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