GHOSTS OF FITZGERALD, KIRK, AND DICKENS

" Ghosts can be a bit unnerving but they can teach us something."  That's what I remember from a quote by a PH.D in English and paranormal expert.  Derek Lee is a genuine professor who has a fellowship or two chairing paranormal studies within the staid halls of academia.  That can still mean something in some circles and I sometimes wish there was still the universal gravitas attached to scholarship.  No matter,  What's true is true.  I was surprised that I can still find some comfort in the great spires  architecture of college life.

Gothic manors and ghosts in quantum timing have their own arcane  fascination. With Derek Lee the theme that crossed him over was the ghostly mentions of F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The founding architect of  sane conservatism, Russell Kirk, has always lived with ghosts.  His rich intellectual life made him a thoughtful researcher in the field.  We approach the season of Dickens and the lessons of 'A Christmas Carol.'  What's true is true.  Lessons can have a spooky tone yet our interpretation and application can be in a spectrum of joy.  That's all for now.  

Wait...... there's one other thing.  I lived in a haunted house.  Made me quite a celebrity in the 60s hippie culture.  I entertained.  But I entertained without understanding.  One fine dinner with hippies, I was asked by a famed guitarists wife about my contacts with 'the ghost.'  I tried to entertain with my stories yet she looked at me with a questioning spirit and quizzed me about how life was for the ghost and whether the guitarist's student really wanted to pursue 'the blues.'  "I don't think Skipp is a blues person." she said.  Then she quizzed me about how the ghost was doing and what would help.  We were cosmic in one way or another back then.  Something in her ESP told me to knock it off with the coolness of ghost fame and look at what matters about human life.  Now I just want the spirits I have loved to be happy.  

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