In Focus: Galatea Monday
Meeting with Miss Galatea Monday at the Haunted Jellyfish for a séance and photo shoot, I confessed to being a little worried. “Aww, no need. I will protect you from anything scary,” said she, smiling. “The spirits are our friends.” As she got me settled in the studio, she said I was pretty, so I figured we were off to a pretty good start.
That’s when the ghost appeared.
I was pretty sure I’d never met a bunnyfish, but her face was familiar somehow. Miss Gala said the bunnyfish ghost was humming a tune. It was all pretty weird, but I wasn’t scared.
“This bunny says that she may know where your lost keys are,” said Miss Gala. “Did you lose keys recently?” I told her I’d lost an entire building—the Tattler building, which had been replaced by a hospital without anyone telling me. Miss Gala told me that the bunnyfish ghost, who is apparently my spirit guardian, said that the Tattler would be found where I least expected it. (Which turned out to be true—the newspaper has moved into the old Montgolfier Building, where the doctor’s clinic used to be, just a few steps down Rossignol from the Jellyfish.)
“Maybe it’s at the bottom of the river,” I joked.
Miss Gala said, “No, but she says some things certainly are.”
As a child, she was chasing a frog but fell down a well and hit her head, and ever since then, spirits have been talking to her. “The spirit world has become a place of comfort for so many. But they’re bored. So, one just has to have some patience and a good connection, and they seem more than willing to come and play!”
I had some questions for my spirit guardian, and what I heard about my ailing crawfish Jimbo shocked me. According to Miss Gala, everyone has a spirit guardian. If you haven’t yet met yours, consider paying her a visit.
Gigi Lapin resides in New Toulouse Bayou with her pet crawfish, Jimbo, who is absolutely not to be given any bourbon.