October 20, 2010
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1 About three days ago I stumbled into Lucky' supermarket. As always, I was in outer space from overwork.
2 At the checkout, I heard a voice that said, "Heidi..."
3 I looked up, zeroed in on the checker's name tag.
4 The name said this: "Heide".
5 Close enough.
6 On Monday, I came to class for the first day of "Spirit Week".
7 I was thinking of Heidi and all, looked up, and saw a student wearing a shirt with a nine on it.
8 I chuckled, and took out a pencil to begin recording.
9 A friend I haven't heard from in forever emailed me to hang out on Tuesday, which was yesterday.
10 Well, yesterday morning, the selfsame student who had worn the the shirt with the nine on it looked up and said, "Mr. H, when did the Titanic sink?"
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12 As any DN reader probably knows, much of the Heidi stories centered on a one-act I wrote a few years before James Cameron cashed in on the Titanic. It was from a show called Ship of Fools, and the piece I wrote was called simply, Titanic.
13 Sidebar: For the record, the Titanic sank on April 12, 1912. The date doesn't add up to a nine, but I just thought I'd save you from guessing.
14 I checked my emails yesterday morning, and Jenny had responded to the DN of two days ago.
15 The time on her email was 9:19. She didn't know this until I responded, and pointed it out. I have the email, if anyone needs citation.
16 She was amazed. Yesterday was 10/19/10. Long-time DN readers know that we are officially on Heidi trip watch. Every October coincidences hammer my life all the way up to and including Halloween. Ones and nines ALWAYS play a significant role during times of stress, and of times when seemingly cosmic things happen in my life. I shall continue.
17 Later on, I met said friend I hadn't heard from in forever, and we rode off in the TOOOOOONDRA, with Bach blaring.
18 This was early afternoon yesterday.
19 Listen.
20 During the summer when we met up, we chilled at the Starbuck's on Tully.
21 Earlier that day, I had mentioned that I was working on the song La Vie en Rose for Rachael Valdez's wedding.
22 Well, we walked into Starbuck's at that time, and La Vie En Rose was playing in the backround, in French. It was Edith Piaf, the singer who made the song famous.
23 Yesterday, when the selfsame friend and I wandered through an antique store, La Vie En Rose played yet again. I turned and looked at a rack of CD's. I saw an Edith Piaf CD. Odds?
24 Yesterday the Giants' game started at 1:19.
25 Heidi is clearly up to her October trips, without a doubt!
26 As the day wore on, and Bach played diligently on the CD player in the TOOOOOONDRA, I occasionally switched to KNBR, and after I would get a score, I would go back to Bach again. I found that I could enjoy the Giants that way this season without listening to every single pitch. I knew Cain was on a roll.
27 So it's now 10/20/10, and already we have a series of coincidences, a few of which seem pretty remarkable. Individually, this stuff is nothing to the layperson.
28 Most people, in fact, would say, "Yes, and..."
29 If you go back, there are SO many. I think I may have lost the Heidi Chronicles somewhere in Geocities land, because I keep forgetting to retrieve the email that said it had canceled. This would be a loss.
30 So I log all of this today so that it is locked in for posterity.
31 Every single event named here had witnesses. Most see only their coincidence, and never see it from my Cusackesque look. I refer, of course, to Serendipity, a film that has Cusack as a guy who is constantly followed by coincidences.
32 When I got home last night, I stopped at the store for a coupla things.
33 The first thing I saw was a bottle of wine the label of which said, "Heidi..." followed by some German suffix, the text of which I was too tired to write down. Besides, you can't take out a pencil in a market and start writing down wine labels. Just looks eccentric. I am far too cosmo p for that.
34 I guess I should have turned the label forward, but really, I just needed to get home.
35 Dude.
36 When I can't keep up with it, and when it is the middle of October, take note.
37 I finally had a drink, made some food, finished, cleaned up and returned to the kitchen to jot a couple of more notes down about today's DN.
38 I looked up at the clock.
39 It was 9:01.
40 What does it all mean?
41 You tell me. These are facts, and I have witnesses for each item.
42 They just don't talk to one another, so to each, it is one silly coincidence.
43 To me, it's silly October.
44 And I JUST started the Halloween/Ghost unit!
45 Just thought I'd share.
46 Every single year. Every single year. It's amazing, at least to me.
47 Well, it's late as I tack these words out, so I think I'll end it with this: Something is out there, and I'm quite sure that I'm not the only one who "gets" this. There are no coincidences.
48 Read.
49 Live life.
50 Love life.
51 Peace.
~H~
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