Feb
22
A Fire in Joy
I had a dream yesterday morning that our kitchen was on fire. For reasons I don’t understand and will leave to a dreamologist or psychiatrist to analyze, I discovered the fire but was paralyzed to act. I did alert Steve, however, and he used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire.
After telling Steve about it, I put the dream out of my mind until this morning. That’s when I discovered an eerie coincidence while going through some research notes from several years ago. Yesterday was Feb. 21. According to my notes, in the early morning of Feb. 21, 1892, exactly 119 years earlier, my great-great grandfather’s hardware store and residence in Joy, Illinois, were destroyed in a fire.
This great-great grandfather, Jasper Riggs, was the father of G.
After telling Steve about it, I put the dream out of my mind until this morning. That’s when I discovered an eerie coincidence while going through some research notes from several years ago. Yesterday was Feb. 21. According to my notes, in the early morning of Feb. 21, 1892, exactly 119 years earlier, my great-great grandfather’s hardware store and residence in Joy, Illinois, were destroyed in a fire.
This great-great grandfather, Jasper Riggs, was the father of G.
