There’s something odd about me, maybe not that odd but lately I’ve found this little quirk a bit disturbing. I’ve had this strange “talent” since childhood though I never paid attention to those random thoughts which popped into my head, and said thoughts would somehow manifest into tragic results. Like someone dying or an awful disaster.

By random thoughts I mean thinking about people, places, things, events, etc. that have absolutely no personal connection. Sometimes a name pops into my head, and I’d wonder, “Whatever happened to So-and-so?” A few days later that person dies.

Example: Back in the late 70’s Larry Conrad, a Democrat who later worked for the Simon brothers, ran for Indiana governor. He had a really cute campaign jingle that played often on the radio. A few years ago, his name popped into my mind; soon after he was dead. The same happened to other famous and not so famous people. Their names came to me and they’d die within a few days. Now it’s happening to people close to me, either family or close acquaintences. Last week I thought of a woman from my mom’s hometown who I hadn’t seen in years. Friday night Mom gets the call from the lady’s mother. “Mitchie passed last night.”

Then it happened again just this week. Two days before the Samoa tsunami, the memory of the 2004 Christmas tsunami came to me. I sensed the same thing before the earthquake in Indonesia. And I think I foresaw Katrina when I imagined, just after Hurricane Andrew hit (1992), such a storm sweeping through New Orleans. I’ve never been to New Orleans but I could sense the destruction just the same.

Could it be I’m psychic? Seems the older I get the more frequent these premonitions come. And I believe it runs in the family as my maternal grandmother was psychic and believed in omens and divination. I indulged in such in the past but gave it up after I joined church, but now, since I’m not as active in churcn as I was, I’m revived my studies of psychic phemomena. Dug out the books and Tarot determined to get a handle on what’s going on with me.