National Respect Your Cat Day

When a person hears the word “medium,” what goes without saying is the word “evidential.”

A medium - in that a person who communicates with Spirit - should be able to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that they’re in communication with the Unseen. Far too many charlatans and hucksters will fill people with unsubstantiated horse-pucky, feeding on another person’s desire to find connection with something greater than themselves.

Spirit has guided me to bring my live events up a notch. I’ve done live events for a long time, yet over the past year or so, they’ve transitioned into something incredible. As far as I can tell, I have a guiding spirit - an angel - who helps me do what I do, connected to the world of Spirit.

What astounds me about this connection is the intelligence behind the scenes. For instance, I host a podcast where I channel Spirit, and before the podcasts begin, I’ll have spirits with me that will be for the people on the podcast. A few days before this podcast, I had a father with me, looking forward to speaking to his daughter.

The daughter showed up alright, but here’s the astounding part: She only learned about the podcast a half-hour before it started. She was invited by a friend, had never heard of me or my podcast, and made plans to attend a half-hour beforehand.

But her father was with me for a few days and somehow knew she’d be there. This tells me that time isn’t what we believe it is, and the angel with me coordinates these podcasts and live events from a place that’s outside of space and time.

Recently, I was in Norwalk and Hamden, Connecticut, and I’d like to take this opportunity to document the gifts, spirits, and people who were with me there.

Norwalk, Connecticut

Something peculiar happens at these “Gifts from Spirit” events. I’ll have a particular set of gifts in mind, given to me a week or two before the event, but when I get to the event and am getting ready in whatever green room space I have, I’ll have a spirit come to me as an “opener.”

During the event in Norwalk, a father came through to deliver a message to his daughter. I knew his daughter would be there, and he indicated extreme pain in his abdomen. He also gave me the impression he couldn’t speak, or that he was muffled, and that his daughter would be one of several daughters he had. The message was clear: he was proud of her.

A woman in the back raised her hand, telling me that her father was in the hospital with a broken pelvis. He also suffered from an oxygen mask on his face that he struggled to speak through, and it wasn’t until after the event that she talked to me privately. His message was clear: she was a hard-working person of integrity that he was so proud of, and she wondered if he was proud of her…or more specifically, if he was ashamed of her. He was anything but, and she explained to me after the event why she was worried.

But no gifts for her…or at least not yet.

The Clown That Wasn’t There

My first set of gifts were sweet - literally. Leading up to this event, I had a brother with me who kept showing me a clown. I tried to find what looked like a clown gumball machine, but no luck, so I had to get a gumball machine. As I communicated with this brother, I didn’t want to get anything clown-related because people can be frightened of clowns. I also had to get jelly beans and Swedish Fish.

But I had to lead with the clown, like it was really important. A woman in the front row, who’d lost her brother and loved sweets, raised her hand and told me she was part of the Barnum family, of circus fame. That’s where the clown came in, but like I suspected, she was frightened of clowns - so it was good that I listened to myself. She also had a “problem” with sweets, or so she called it, but her brother wanted to give her them anyway.

She Who Was Terrified

The next set of gifts was for more than one person, and I love how interesting this can get.

I had a mother with me who wanted to give her daughter a hobby horse and a book of crossword puzzles. I also thought this mother - who was also a grandmother - was religious because I had a Jesus doll.

Putting the pieces together and describing the gifts, these ended up for two friends sitting next to each other. The first friend had a hobby horse as she was growing up, and the crossword puzzles were a symbol of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Whoever received this was terrified of getting that, like the woman who played the crossword puzzles.

The Jesus doll ended up being for her friend, whose grandmother loved Jesus and spoke about him like he was her husband. She also crocheted, and that’s why the Jesus doll had to be crocheted.

The woman who got the hobby horse was to give it to her granddaughter, but the crossword puzzles were for her.

The Brother Who Could Fix Anything

When I got to this event, people had arrived early and were already in the space. I had to unload the car, get all set up, and get the gifts out - and then disappear. I didn’t have enough time to take a picture of the table of gifts or the individual groups of gifts.

This set of gifts included a t-shirt that said, “That’s what I do - I know stuff, and I fix things.” This was for a brother who was a plumber. Then, while I was looking for a teddy bear from the New York Yankees, I could only find a stuffed baseball dog. The other gift was Blackjack gum, the licorice flavor.

A woman raised her hand, telling me that her brother was a plumber who had turned into a mechanic - he could fix anything. He loved the Yankees and would close his shop when they had home games. He also played blackjack, but didn’t have a connection to black licorice - but her other brother did, who was also in spirit.

She Who Did the Work of Angels

Winnie the Pooh. That’s what I had to get next, for a woman who loved Winnie. I got a stuffed Winnie the Pooh, a mug with a honey jar with Winnie on it, and a keychain with the famous poem: “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

I had to lead with that, which was inscribed on the keychain. A couple of people loved Pooh, but only one woman who’d recently broken a mug, and as Spirit told me, “did the work of angels.” The woman in question was a teacher.

The keychain would go to her grandniece, and the stuffed Pooh would go to the “cancer survivor.” The woman who survived cancer was her sister, the grandmother of that grandniece.

However, she got to keep the mug to replace the one she’d recently broken.

The Conundrum

The next set of gifts threw me for a loop. A military t-shirt, a bottle of Cognac, and the supplies for stuffed shells. A woman connected with the bottle of Hennessy and the military shirt - her father-in-law - but couldn’t place the stuffed shells. She indicated she “couldn’t stand” her father-in-law, but he was coming through with an apology.

Strangely, the woman sitting next to her was the woman from the very beginning, whose father had a broken pelvic floor. She’d been thinking about making stuffed shells recently, and when the other woman gifted her the stuffed shells supplies, she was amazed that it was the same sauce she and her family preferred.

Spirit had brought us full circle.

Hamden, Connecticut

Oh that damn aloe plant…what a nuisance it was to not only find it, but to carry it around to eventually get it to the event at Hamden…but it was all worth it, as you’ll soon see. I did remember to take pictures of the gifts and the table full of gifts at this event!

This event started with two spirits, or so I thought. As I was getting ready in the green room space, a woman came to me. She indicated she was an “Ice Queen,” never giving her daughter the love and attention she needed. This mother in spirit was a voracious reader, showing me a library to indicate as much. Strangely, this scenario applied to two women - one whose mother was very much as I described, and another woman who had a grandmother who was exactly the same.

The evening was about to get really weird, but like the Norwalk event, we had to get there by circling back around. You’ll see what I mean…

The Husband Who Gifted Teddy Bears

I had to get a purple teddy bear, a cribbage board, and Vermont maple syrup. This would indicate the man who was there, and it ended up being a husband in spirit who played cribbage on the porch (as I’d described), loved maple syrup (it had to be the Vermont kind!), and gave his wife teddy bears, which she still had a collection of.

Her favorite color was purple!

The Cheddar Cheese Dad

The next set of gifts were also really repping Vermont! I had to get a Ginsu knife, a block of Cabot Cheddar Cheese, and beads for the woman there who was a crafter.

A woman in the front row raised her hand, telling us her dad always cooked, used great knives, and put cheddar cheese on everything. The kicker was when she raised her hand, her wrist covered in the beaded bracelets she had made herself. Her sister was with her, and the main message for them was to make sure they were living BIG and BRIGHT lives and the sister who didn’t craft was gifted the beads so she could learn to craft with her sister.

The sister who walked away with the cheese and the knife? It was her birthday that day!

The Brother Who Drank

I kept hearing ice cubes clink in a drinking glass leading up to this event. The gifts from this brother were flashing, light-up ice cubes, a New York Knicks shirt, and a Christmas tree star.

The woman who raised her hand indicated that her brother drank with ice cubes, but it was Coca-Cola. He was a huge NY Knicks fan, and the star indicated he was upset the family wasn’t celebrating Christmas anymore. She noted that 2024 was the first year she and her family didn’t celebrate Christmas anymore.

The Injured Soul

Next up was a grandmother with a connection to sunflowers. The gifts I had to get included a packet of sunflower seeds, a gardening apron, and hummingbird feeders.

A woman in the back raised her hand and had this special connection to sunflowers with her grandmother. I described her walkway and encouraged her to “go big” when gardening - not to downsize. She appreciated the apron because she would lose her garden tools, and feeding hummingbirds was something she did every year…and while she bought sunflower seeds every year, she had yet to.

I began to feel pain in my ribs and asked her about what was going on there. She told me she’d been in a significant accident, and her family wanted her to downsize her gardening efforts - but her grandmother felt differently about it! I encouraged her not to injure herself or push herself too hard but to keep moving and doing what she loved, as that’s what would heal her best.

And she gifted her friend a hummingbird feeder because two came in a box!

The Calico

Remember how I said Spirit would bring us full circle? The following gifts included that dang aloe plant, a stuffed calico cat, and special fish treats.

I described the Calico cat as the “Queen,” and she knew it while alive. She was also fed what I thought to be sardines, but doing research, I found it wasn’t great to feed animals sardines because of the high sodium. That’s why I had to get actual fish treats for cats and dogs. Also, the aloe plant.

The woman from the very beginning, with the ice queen mom, raised her hand and described her “Queen” Calico. She actually cut up pieces of sardines to feed to her, and she told us about how she would rid her Akita dogs! Later, she sent in a picture of her cat, next to one of her dogs.

The aloe plant was specific to her mom, though. Her mom tried to keep houseplants, and the only plant she could keep alive was an aloe plant. Here’s where it gets even stranger…

The woman who “matched” up with her in the beginning, whose grandmother was just like her mother…well, they knew each other. Also strange was the woman who had the grandmother also had a Calico cat, and at the end of the event showed me a picture she later emailed me. She not only had a Calico cat, but it was National Respect Your Cat Day that very same day!

As a cat dad, this warmed my heart so much!!

All of these spirits came through - cat and human alike - to share their love and gratitude for us, and in specific instances, apologize for their mistreatment while they were alive. All these gifts and synchronicities showed everyone in the audience that Spirit keeps on and watches over us and that their love is everlasting.

They’re always with us, and our peace is theirs. If we want our loved ones to rest in peace, we should live in peace as much as possible.

And we should always, always respect our cats!