A local medium has come up with a unique way to connect people with loved ones who have died to lift people’s spirits during a rather dark time.

This month's cover story is titled, "A High Court of a Different Kind." Steven F. Macek is an attorney in the Boston area, doing work in Juvenile and probate court. But the sights of his true calling are set somewhere else—in a place few others can see.

Macek joined the bar in 2002, handling care and protection cases in Juvenile Court … Then, in 2010, his life took a dramatic turn when he attended an event at which a well-known Massachusetts medium was giving readings.

“When I was 17 or so, my mother and brother would get upset when I didn’t want to go [to his father’s grave],” he said. “There was something inside me; I knew I just didn’t have to. In hindsight, I guess I felt a connection already with my father.”