I think it is holidays that bring alive the ghost that I will become. It happened on Christmas and now it is happening for Easter. The ghost of my future sees lonliness for my family. Easter dinner was always at my house. This year I have treatment scheduled for Good Friday so I won't be well enough to host the traditional family Easter dinner. So now Easter dinner is everywhere! It will be a lonely Easter at 22 Kings Row this year because I am out of commission. I see this in the future as my ghostly spirit looks down from it's terrace. I will throw you down kissess in each piece of candy that hides in the Easter baskets, I will hide my spirit in the overpowering smell of Easter lillies so I can fill the room and you will remember, I will cry because the house that was so full of life on Easter Sunday is silent.
But then the years will go by and a new tradition will be made and my family will be together again. And as my ghost looks down at 22 Kings Row it sees another family celebrating Easter. I will wish them all the joy that living in that house had brought to me. Then my ghost travels back to the new family tradition. I listen and watch. I realize that I have become a story, a "remember when" and in my ghostly fantasy they are only saying nice things. I smile and smell the lillies.
Happy Easter.
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