[John P]

Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan

When I was about 13 or 14 I was playing basketball at the foot of our driveway, and this tornado of leaves started circling and swirling around on the road, probably a hundred and fifty feet away. I dropped the basketball and watched as this leaf tornado slowly gathered strength and started coming towards me, eventually growing to about five feet tall. It meandered all the way down our (long) driveway until it was right in front of me, and then around me, and then it just stayed there, circling around with me in the middle, for nearly a minute. And then it was just gone, the leaves simply fell to the ground and scattered like nothing had even happened, and I walked into the house, blown away, trying to figure out what I had just experienced.

When American Beauty came out years later that damn paper bag scene made me just start sobbing uncontrollably in the theater because it touched so closely on how I had felt that day. Life was so different since it had happened but that feeling hadn't changed a bit.

Anyway, I don't know why, your squirrel story reminded me of that. Sounds to me like a sign to not worry, that you're being looked after.

Wow, that's an awesome story =) And a great movie too.