The Daily News
1 The fun thing about writing the DN is that I always have the teevee blaring in the background, just for some much-needed noise in my nervewracking life.
2 If it's too quiet, I start going through spiritual awakenings and OBE's and stuff.
3 So having an obnoxiously loud teevee keeps me typing and writing and not thinking.
4 I also get to glance at all sorts of obnoxious things on teevee.
5 Last night, for example, this show called The Insider jack-hammered me with news about how obnoxious the paparazzi is to Britney, or to Oprah, even though when you really think about it, they ARE the paparazzi.
6 I gotta love it.
7 Moving on: I gave my Leadership kids a little too much credit the other day. They still haven't exhibited too much soul or certainty about anything outside of themselves. Too bad, lots of potential but way too many of the self-centered for them to really "get it" quite yet. Still working on it. Sacrificing for the greater good seems a foreign concept. Me first appears to be the order of the day. Too bad. Their loss.
8 Moving on, Part 2: First off, right as I was typing "Part 2" The Insider chick said the words "Part 2" at exactly the same time. I don't even remember what "Part 2" was going to be anymore because it caught me off guard.
9 Just another coincidence. The other day I was writing about coincidences and the time turned to 5:41. The thought crossed my mind that numerologically, that's a 1, but it's also a nine and a one, which are Heidi numbers. Just as that thought occurred to me, the radio, which also blares when I write, said, "Right when you thought it was safe to go back into the Theatre..."
10 Ha.
11 I seriously couldn't even begin to list the coincidences that fly at me on a daily basis anymore. I've become invulnerable almost. Either it's increased in the last few years, or I just notice it more. Either way, it's fun. Britney was out Halloweening with Heidi Klum. That was just reported. Is that a Heidi thing? It just came on as I was writing this.
12 The answer is no. Too easy.
13 For something really to be regarded as a bonafide Heidi trip, it needed some really amazing coincidence coupled with hearing the name Heidi on occasions surrounding the coincidence. That's my own rule of Heidi trips.
14 So there are a great many more than I've ever reported, but it would move from the sublime to the excessively ridiculous if I even tried.
15 And that's one of the great things about the Heidi stories. As many as have been reported, there are probably three to four times as many as I've even admitted to.
16 And that doesn't include fantastical coincidences that don't have the name Heidi anywhere near them.
Vincent's Starry Night
17 You might recall the Starry Night coincidences when I wrote the short play Lovebirds two years ago. It was the one that involved Vincent Van Gogh and Starry Night. The coincidences came fast and furious, but none had anything with any reference to a Heidi.
Paul Phu and Trinh Le in 2005's Lovebirds
18 It involved me forgetting what ending I had planned on writing when I went to Camp Anytown, and on my return, trying to write it and still not remembering, clicking on the television on the night that the show Medium had a 3-D show featuring Van Gogh. The entire ending I had originally thought of had a huge reference to Van Gogh, and when I told Angie I wanted a Van Gogh look to my set, she told me that she was a Starry Night fan, and that both her VISA card and her My Space had Starry Night on them.
19 A little while later, on a Sunday morning, I wanted to study a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer, couldn't find it, decided to turn on the teevee, and Dr. Dyer was on. After a pledge break, he came back, and there was a background with Van Gogh's Starry Night behind him. The reason I wanted to read the book was specifically to study the concept of coincidences, which Dr. Dyer frequently writes about.
This picture was taken of the television screen. I knew I had
caught a coincidence mid-flight. Dr. Dyer with a familiar background.
20 By the way, when I say someone was on the teevee, I mean instantly, like without searching for channels. The Saturday that I returned from Camp Anytown, I had clicked on the teevee and the film Serendipity was on. That was pretty much after I had dropped the luggage from Anytown on the floor and just clicked on the teevee.
21 The fun part of that one was that while at Camp Anytown, I had decided to stop paying attention to those coincidences and just move on with my life.
22 You know how sometimes in life we go through a search for some sort of sign? It was during that period, right after the Class of '05 had departed that I needed something like that. Work hadn't become meaningless, but it was a tough adjustment, and I would look for some sort of sign. Lovebirds sprang from my soul during that period, but I just didn't know how to bring the play to a meaningful ending. I had thought of a great ending involving Van Gogh and Starry Night, but had forgotten the idea when I went to Camp Anytown. When I returned I couldn't for the life of me remember what I had come up with.
23 When I came back from having done a tremendously spritual camp, I decided not to pay attention to coincidences and all that. I realized I could still be a great teacher, and that everyone deserved my best efforts, not one class. So I was going to have nothing to do with coincidences, signs, and that sort of thing.
24 And the second I put down my luggage, Serendipity was on, a film all about coincidences. Mediocre John Cusack movie, but it definitely caught my attention, and about two days after it was over, I had decided to finish writing the play, got stuck EXACTLY where Vincent Van Gogh was to enter the scene, clicked on the teevee, and there was Medium with Van Gogh in full 3-D, delivering on a silver platter the ending I was trying to remember.
25 Not one word nor mention of Heidi. But an amazing coincidence, especially since I was writing the ending from a spiral notebook, and watching the teevee at the same time. I even wrote how amazing it was in the liner notes of the script. I have the notebook, somewhere. But the second I saw the Van Gogh stuff, the ending wrote itself.
26 Well I'd better pull outta this one before I go in too deep.
27 Many of you who read the DN have been in on many, many other coincidences. It's always amazed me, and when I talk of it, it's difficult because it all just sounds so crazy.
28 I've just been minding my own business while this stuff just continues to happen with astounding regularity. THAT'S the weird part.
29 And I love it every time it happens.
30 I see it's too much too often just to be coincidental, and therefore connects with a faith in something larger than all of this.
31 And with that, I'll depart this lovely day.
32 There may be another coincidence right around the next corner. Probably will be.
33 Sometimes, they say, it's just the little things...
34 You have a beautiful day.
35 Peace.
~H~
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