Dave Nicholson

My Brother was a wayward soul. He struggled with addiction and was at times a very mean spirited person in his youth. It was all about him in the time we lived together at the family home. I will never know why, but my parents allowed him to literally run wild. He could take from us to buy booze and drugs and they let it go. Yet if I did the slightest thing wrong, I was corrected instantly. Later he became a loving father and left the arrogance and self interest behind him. Yet the addiction was always there and in the end destroyed his marriage, and lost his Son to him basically. In the end, it was what killed him. He was in the mental hospital for many months and when he got out, the first thing he did was score some drugs. Well the dosage was more than he could tolerate after being off drugs for so long, and he overdosed. We will never know if it was suicide or a sad mistake. Shortly before he was let out, he phoned me and wanted the location of Moms grave (map coordinates in the gr...

The other day I posted about Mom telling me that if you see the time 12:34 a loved one is looking down on you from Heaven. This time I was thinking deeply of my Dad and then there it was when I went to check the temperature on my lock screen. I immediately felt like he was in the room with me and I could smell his Old Spice cologne. I was not as close to my Dad as with my Mom, but we where, in my mind, closer than most Fathers and Sons. I have a lot of strong memories with Dad. We went shooting, hunting gophers and fishing. We spent time at the armouries and the police station together. We had long talks into the night at times while a B-Movie played on the TV. He told me things that he never told another soul, not even Mom. We even had a beer together on the rare instance. Often when I am watching a movie, I think, "Dad would have loved this movie." I've very much been missing my family this last while. I'm about to post my brothers obituary, as his Son never put one...

I've decided to post the obituaries of Morris Nicholson and Violet Nicholson (my loving parents). I've been thinking about them a lot this last while and I edited their obituaries in MS Word then exported as a JPG and added a nice border to them. They where always there for me and made sure I knew I was loved. They adopted me, but not once have I ever thought about my birth parents - instead they where, to me, the only parents I ever had. My brother is also dead, but no obituary for him exists and I will have to later on make one up for him. I do not have a more recent photo of him, but I do have some about 15 years before he died. But for now - here is my parents obituaries.

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This is a short one. Mom told me many times that if you look at the clock and it's 12:34 that a loved one is looking in on you from heaven. Well this is 12:34 just after midnight on May 10th 2026 - and it's mothers day. Yesterday (the 9th) was moms birthday and I have been crying a lot the this weekend. I miss her a lot the last 2 years. When she left, it left a hole in my heart that can't be filled by anything. And here it is, just after midnight and it turned into mothers day and here is the sign she drilled into me as being a message from heaven. I have to think it's God telling me we will be together again some day. If you still have you mother this mothers day, tell her you love her, she may not be there next year - life is not guaranteed any of us.

Mom on Mothers day 2007. She did not have many years to live after this and most of them where not too good for her as she had COPD then terminal cancer. This was her last good outing and I used the photo for her online memorial. She was so happy to get the rose and to have a nice meal. It was also the last time I could have afforded to give her a nice meal and a rose - after that I lost $207 in rental subsidy and it hit me hard. I miss seeing her happy and going for coffee with her so very much. I just miss her in general. It left a big hole in my life when she passed on. When I cleaned out Moms stuff after she went into the home, I found a bunch of stuff I had made her when I was a child. I sat there and cried thinking she saved all that. It hit me hard and I felt so loved and the dread of loosing that love. I knew it was coming soon and it hurt my soul. My cousin with Mom out for coffee with us not long before Mom went in a home. She was on oxygen full time at this point in time. I ...

I normally just let people freak out on religion, but I had to comment this time. I do fully understand where they are coming from however. There is a minority of Christians for example that are loud, annoying TWATS that keep going on about Gay people and Trans people being evil and how they need to do something about that. SIGH. The reality is, that the big majority of Christians either never think about Gay people or accept them. There is a growing number of churches out there that full on accept them as equals and don't try to "fix them" - but we only remember the loud annoying people yelling bullshit, and we don't remember the ones quietly saying, "come on in, you are welcome here." I literally have a friend who runs a church just for the LGBTQ+ community. They are out there and they are speaking up for unity - but we all notice the bad and tend to ignore the good in this world. On a note, Jesus never mentioned homosexuality once. The old testament is no...

31. Who is your spiritual self? How do you align with your spiritual self in your daily life? It is literally my soul. It is that that can’t die and will go on forever. I try to walk the path given to my life, but I stumble all the time. So, I am not always aligned. 32. How does your spiritual self navigate each day? Look for the signs of what I need to give the world and do what is needed. 33. How does your spiritual self react to negative energy? I walk away from it and seek the positive. 34. Do you regularly consult with God when responding to situations and making decisions? No. I know he will show me what to do. I don’t always listen, however. So, I don’t need to consult God. 35. Do you believe you’re a spiritual being in a human body? What does this concept mean to you? Yes. It means this body is a shell that holds my spirit for a while. When the body dies, my spirit goes to the place of souls and of God. 36. What blessings are you experiencing in your life right now? Love. Help ...