JANUARY GONE LIKE A FADING GHOST

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery famous ghost of a young woman on the gravestone.

This photograph appeared in both the Chicago Sun-Times & the National Examiner. It was taken during an investigation in Bachelor's Grove Cemetery on 8/10/1991 with a group of GRS Ghost Research Society members. The picture is an enlarged black & white infrared shot taken of an area where many of the group noticed something unusual with some of the equipment they used. It shows a young woman sitting on a gravestone with parts of her lower & upper body being somewhat semitransparent. The dress she is wearing is also out of date. It was taken by member Jude Huff-Felz.

Many Orbs at the Bachelor's Grove Cemetery entrance 9/16/2007

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery Chicago Illinois, USA is rated as one of the top ten haunted cemeteries in America. This abandoned Chicago burial ground is the subject of numerous legends & ghostly tales. Hundreds of different reports of strange phenomena have been collected about the place. Including actual apparitions, unexplained sights, sounds & even glowing balls of light, misty orbs & vortexes.

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery Mist captured using a 35mm camera.

The haunted history of the place began in 1844 when the area was set aside as a burial ground, first called Everdon's. The cemetery saw its first burial that year & it was in steady use until 1965 when things began to drop off. It should be noted that the last actual burial there was in 1989, when the ashes of a local resident were interred on the grounds. However, before that time & since the place has been abandoned & vandalized. In the middle 1800s, the cemetery became known as Bachelor's Grove, although history is a bit cloudy as to how this name came about.

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery mist captured using a 35mm camera.

Today the Bachelor's Grove Restoration Project is in full swing & the community has come together bringing back the peace & harmony.

THE SLEEPER
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep!
Heaven have her in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
This bed for one more melancholy,
I pray to God that she may lie,
For ever with unopened eye,
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!
EDGAR ALLAN POE1809-1849
The Sleeper's 3rd Verse

Blessings For Peace & Harmony Everywhere, Lyndy

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EMILY DICKINSON DISPIRITED VICTORIAN POET

Exquisite Victorian Funeral Coach, Driver & Beautiful Black Friesian Horses. The Friesian Horse is also known to have been the breed that the Knights Templar choose to ride during Medieval Times.

BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH
EMILY DICKINSON1830-1886

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove
At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON

The Belle of Amherst Victorian American poet so alone, depressed & surreal.

Emily was talented & ignored in life. She lived a mostly introverted & reclusive life. A Marlene Dietrich if attention arrived, with melancholy in her lines yet lyric in her words.

Inspiring deep & dark contemplation, Miss Dickinson was a prolific private poet choosing to publish fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems.

Interesting how life & death has come full circle for Miss Dickinson. With the old adage, 'History Repeats Itself' in Emily's last verse:

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

Fortunately for us her poems have been published through the last two centuries by her close friends & relatives.






EMILY'S HEADSTONE

Engraved:
* CALLED BACK *

Miss Dickinson was buried
at the West Cemetery,
Amherst, Hampshire County,
Massachusetts, USA.




Luck Is Not Chance, It's Toil; Fortune's Expensive Smile Is Earned!
EMILY DICKINSON

Blessings Filled With Love & Inspiration, Lyndy

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FAMOUS HISTORICAL JANUARY BIRTHDAYS

* Happy January Birthday To All The Creative CAPRICORN'S
&AQUARIAN'S *

* TOP TEN LIST: FAMOUS HISTORICAL JANUARY BIRTHDAYS 2008 *
* Click On Names For Fun Info & Commemorative Gifts *

* BETSY ROSS 01/01/1752
Seamstress who designed the first American flag.

* PAUL REVERE 01/01/1735
Patriot in the American Revolutionary War.

* J.R.R. TOLKIEN 01/03/1892
English Philologist & Author of 'Lord Of The Rings'.

* CHARLES 'TOM THUMB' STRATTON 01/04/1838
English Dwarf who performed in P.T. Barnum's Circus.

* LOUIS BRAILLE 01/06/1809
Invented the world wide reading & writing system for the blind.

* KAHLIL GIBRAN 01/06/1883
Lebanese American Artist, Poet & Author of 'The Prophet'.

* JOAN OF ARC 01/06/1412
Catholic Saint disguised herself as a man to fight for France.

* JACK LONDON 01/12/1876
American adventurous Author & Novelist of 'Call Of The Wild'.

* DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER 01/14/1875
Doctor, Humanitarian & Noble Peace Prize Laureate.

* DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 01/15/1925
Baptist Minister, Noble Peace Prize Laureate, Civil Rights Leader & Author of one of the most famous speeches 'I Have A Dream'.

AND that's only the first 15 day's of January...

'I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy & permanent planet.'
JACK LONDON 1876-1916

* LORI RUDOLPH a Capricorn & very talented Halloween artist friend of mine presented me with her always amazing OOAK 2007 Crazy Cats Horn. Just wanted to say Thank You again & Happy Birthday all month long!

I've purchased over a dozen more of Lori's SPOOKTACULAR Black Cat Papier-Mâché Art Work that will be presented in my Black Cat Halloween Fantasy Art Book, which is in progress.

* A Beautiful Art Book Because Of All The Beautiful Art Within *

BOUNTIFUL COSMIC BLESSINGS TO ALL, LYNDY

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FLY ME TO THE MOON

I'm very honored & excited that I was awarded a beautiful OOAK Art Work for participating in the fun SANTA CLAUS FEST.This absolutely beautiful 'FLY ME TO THE MOON' Gothic Arch is an Original One Of A Kind (OOAK) Art Work by the very talented HERMINE KOSTER all the way from The Netherlands.

Dear Santa & Santa's Helpers,TINA, BELINDA & HERMINE; the originators of the International Internet Santa Claus Fest 2007. This was so much fun & I can't wait for the next Santa Claus Fest 2008.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU ALL! What a great way to start a wonderful New Year!!!

Dear Hermine, thank you from the bottom of my heart! I love your 'FLY ME TO THE MOON' Gothic Arch Art Work. It's so MAGICKAL!!!

EIN GUTES UND GESEGNETES NEUES JAHR!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, BLESSINGS & XOXOs, Lyndy

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