Three years ago, I was sitting in my room, looking at family photos on my computer. I had been looking at a photo of my dad, who passed away in 1991 from a brain aneurysm. I asked my son if he knew who the man in the photo was. I wasn't surprised when he told me that it was my dad. I'd told him about his grandpa before, but what I wasn't prepared for is when he went on to tell me that he saw him in our old apartment, right by the front door.

My son told me "He told me I'll always be with you. I also saw him in the backseat of the car." I was blown away. I've always believed in God, and what my son told me only strengthened my faith. After-death communication generally isn't really encouraged in many faiths. However, I believe my son. He wouldn't have just made it up. He said that he saw my dad right in front of him. Dad was wearing a brown cowboy hat and a white country western shirt. He also had a beard. My dad was a country music singer, who sang and played the guitar in many local taverns around the state of Washington. He also played for weddings, or anyone that hired the band. I have a photo of my dad when he was in the Air Force, in his early 20's. My son saw that, and said that he looked just like that photo, except he had a beard. My dad only shaved his beard once in my lifetime, and that lasted one day. The other time he shaved it was when he was in the Air Force before I was born. He went on to tell me about how he saw my dad in the backseat of our car one night when his mom was driving down a very steep hill, with a large drop-off.

We drove it on the way to my work every day. That hill always scared him when he was little. My dad stayed with him in the backseat, although he was the only one that saw him. I'm so happy that my dad was there for him like that. I used to get so sad, because my parents both died before any of their grandchildren were born, but I realized that they never really left. My parents are there for their grandchildren. My son is almost 10 now, and he still remembers seeing his grandpa. I ask him from time to time, because I really don't want him to forget about it as he gets older. I know that many kids forget that they can see spirits when they get older, mostly because society tells us we are told that there is no such thing as ghosts. What my son didn't know is that my ex-girlfriend also saw my dad, just like he did. Jennifer and I were living together in 1993, two years after my dad passed, and we were up late, talking about my dad. She wanted so bad to have met him. When she was little, she and her sister frequently saw two spirits in their house, but she couldn't see them anymore once she got into her teens. Needless to say, she was taken by surprise when she saw my dad that night in our bedroom doorway. She described him in explicit detail, although she had never seen a photo of him. I saw her eyes grow bigger huge. It honestly scared her at first, because she was accustomed to the spirits she saw when she was little. She started to feel much calmer, and went on to describe how there was a brilliant light surrounding my dad, and that it was so intense, particularly around his feet. She described his black cowboy hat, and his country and western shirt, even the way it was only buttoned up halfway. She couldn't have known that my dad always wore his western shirts that way. She described the eagle pin on his hat. He wore one for being a member of the Eagles taverns.

She even described the blue feathers that went all around the brim of his hat. She described his cowboy hat in full detail. She explained to me the next morning that he never said a thing, but he smiled at her for several minutes. In the dream visits I've had of him, he never says anything, but he does smile at me, just like Jennifer saw. I used to be so upset because I didn't see what Jennifer saw, and my depression eventually led to our break-up. My six year old son taught me a very important lesson that I didn't know at the time. I was torn up in my grief at that point in my life that my dad didn't want to upset me. It wasn't my time to see him. Although I don't see him in front of me like my son and Jennifer did, I see him very clearly in dreams, and I have heard him on one occasion, although I couldn't see him in that particular dream. I'll go into detail on that visit another time, because this is one LONG post already. Thank you.