With that book in mind let's give this a go. Get a cuppa for this one!
My daughter used to have a horse stabled in Perth, a ramshackle place but it was cheap to rent and local. The property was bought by the National Trust and the stables were to be demolished so I took sightings so that I would be able to pinpoint the location of the stable after it was gone. The NT let me leave a plinth at that site in her memory and I put a pine post marking each corner of the stable.
About 14 years ago I moved from Perth and ended up down in the SW 300km away on 5 acres. The trip to Perth to visit that site has become harder as i've aged and a couple of years ago, after loading up the car with a lawnmower, gardening tools and flowers, I decided I just couldn't face the 6 hour round trip and unloaded the car.
It was the anniversary of her death and I feeling very guilty and wishing it wasn't so far away when the thought struck me that I might have a spot here that could be hers. That lifted me up and I walked out of the shed where the car was parked with some marker flags to search for possible sites. It's a pretty place with house towards the back of the block, an acre of old growth trees along the quiet road then it drops down to a very small creek line and up a bit at the back. Everything but the trees at the top is park like with some big native trees and lots of deciduous trees.
As I wandered around trying to get in her head to see where she might like to be[I know it's weird] I was getting no where. There were lots of possible spots but I wanted the best spot. While still looking I found myself compelled to circle around one particular spot. I had no idea why I was doing it and eventually stopped, moved to one side and stuck a marker flag in the centre of the clearly defined circle in the grass that I had made. It was a lovely spot in the partial shade of 2 large London Plane trees and a Peppermint tree with the little creek line flowing around it.
I got the tractor out and loaded up some granite rocks from a pile and took them to the spot where 3 of them looked good sat on top of each other. The top rock was a strange 3 sided pyramid that looked a bit mystical. After that I found a glass jar, put the flowers in it next to the rocks and tried to convince myself that I had done the right thing.
It might have been the next day that I was still trying to work out the significance of that spot because I was convinced something very strange had gone on and it had been chosen for me, not by me, although I had felt no connection with my daughter while I was looking which was frustrating because she can get in my head still, even after all these years. A sudden brainwave had me going back inside to get on Google Earth to see where it was and if that showed any meaning. I already had the boundaries marked on GE and placed a marker on the chosen spot and started zooming out. Soon I saw something and placed a circle on the block with a 60m radius touching both of the side and also the rear boundary. This circle also reached the nearest trees at the top of the paddock where the 1 acre of dense trees starts. The chosen spot was the exact centre of the land, the more I looked at it the more perfect it was as if it had been measured with lasers.
It seemed wrong looking at it outside and the boundaries because of the buildings, trees, undulations etc but it clearly is the exact centre. I've told several people[everyone I know] and some are sceptical and dismiss it as a coincidence while others had goose bumps but what are the odds of that?
For me it's another confirmation[there have been several others] that all is not as we would assume in this life and that she chose that spot and she chose it in such a way that I could discover it wasn't random it was special.
That book makes sense of it all and explains how these things can happen and the loss is temporary. I took the pic today and the flowers are a week old, all picked from here.
