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May 1, 2006
Bide One's TimeWillard David Firestone and the River GhostBy Lee Prosser ![]() Uncle Willard and his mother, Archie Blythe Firestone, owned a cabin near the river located not far from Turner's Station, Missouri. This was not many miles from the city of Springfield. He taught me how to fish, use of the bow and arrow, and how to shoot a rifle and handgun at his cabin. I recall the old wood plank swing that was tied to the limb of a huge gnarled tree, and the times I enjoyed swinging on it, my hands clutched tightly on the ropes of each side of the plank, Uncle Willard's gentle pushes never too hard or too high! I remember the soft summer wind whispering in my ears as I went ever higher. Those and other precious memories remain intact with me. In many ways, my uncle was both father and mother to me, treating me as his own son. During his lifetime, he remained devoted to his childhood sweetheart, but he never married her. He always joked he was married to his music! ![]() "Ghosts and the waves of time compliment each other," Uncle Willard once told me. Looking back on this incident reminds me of how truewhat he was saying is. He also told me: "Reincarnation is the continuation of the dream because the soul is immortal and never dies."
Lee Prosser is Ghostvillage.com's book reviewer and a
regular contributor. "Bide One's Time" is Prosser's twice-monthly column on his supernatural musings.
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