Fundamental Interconnectedness
In light of the recent news of a Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency series on BBC4, a post on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things has been brewing in my head.
Tonight it comes out, but really only talks about one coincidence I haven't already talked about in these journals.
I went on a date last Friday with a lovely young woman, and things seem to have gone fairly well. We went to a pub for dinner, then wandered around downtown Seattle for a few hours until we were both half asleep on our feet and she had to get to bed to be at work in the morning.
The coincidences begin a few years ago, when she was living in Colorado with her then-boyfriend. As it turns out, she lived near where I grew up, and worked in a Mexican restaurant in the same shopping center where I worked for Walgreens and RadioShack years prior. While I was in Oregon, she was working a few blocks from the house in which I grew up. She moved to Seattle, leaving the boy, around the time I moved back to Denver.
She grew up in San Diego, an admittedly large city in a large state, but not far from the city of Solana Beach, where my grandparents lived, and where I vacationed with my family on many Christmases.
This could all just be the human mind's propensity for seeing patterns and connections where none exist.
Tonight it comes out, but really only talks about one coincidence I haven't already talked about in these journals.
I went on a date last Friday with a lovely young woman, and things seem to have gone fairly well. We went to a pub for dinner, then wandered around downtown Seattle for a few hours until we were both half asleep on our feet and she had to get to bed to be at work in the morning.
The coincidences begin a few years ago, when she was living in Colorado with her then-boyfriend. As it turns out, she lived near where I grew up, and worked in a Mexican restaurant in the same shopping center where I worked for Walgreens and RadioShack years prior. While I was in Oregon, she was working a few blocks from the house in which I grew up. She moved to Seattle, leaving the boy, around the time I moved back to Denver.
She grew up in San Diego, an admittedly large city in a large state, but not far from the city of Solana Beach, where my grandparents lived, and where I vacationed with my family on many Christmases.
This could all just be the human mind's propensity for seeing patterns and connections where none exist.