LONG DISTANCE MIND-MELD or YOU MIGHT BE A VULCAN IF...

You know that phenomenon when you hear about something new and then suddenly you hear/see that same thing over and over in different places? (I'm sure there's a sniglet for this. Anyone remember sniglets?) I love when that happens b/c it makes the great divide that sometimes seems to separate us all feel really, really small.

Still, the confluence of coincidence can be astonishing. Take, for example, the unbelievable same-wavelength, separated-at-birth, gotta-be-psychic blogposts that my friend Downsizing and I wrote yesterday. Now, I had never heard this poem. I saw a clip of the reading on PBS last night and went to the internet to see the full performance. It moved me, and so I started to write about it. I have a few blog posts in the wings but, later in the evening, I selected that one as the one to finish and post. Reed had heard the poem before but chose last night to write about it, too. Doesn't it just reaffirm that warm and fuzzy feeling about a friendship to serendipitously find yourselves on the same page? And across such a great distance?

That's why I think it's so important to follow-up when you suddenly think about something or someone you haven't thought of in a while. Whatever it is that triggered the recall in your brain might have had the same effect on him/her. You never know who might be thinking about you!