One Day, Two Odd Coincidences

This morning, as I was driving down Storrow Drive, listening to Planxty's Arthur McBride, with vocals by Andy Irvine, what did I see before me but a tow truck with a hand-lettered sign of the garage owner's last name, Irvine.

Later, while listening to talk radio, I was also reading about Bolivia's president Evo Morales and his hunger strike. The conservative talker was babbling about leftist regimes and mentioned Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.

That Coincidence Thing Happened Again

I had just finished typing the word "Atlantis," which in this case referred to the man-made island off Dubai, when I scrolled up the page to see an ad for, you guessed it, Atlantis (this one being the mega-resort in the Bahamas. Careful readers of this blog will recall my previous experiences with this word-coincidence phenomenon.

I'll keep you posted as more occur.

Coincidence, or Something Else?

About once a month, I would estimate, I have the bizarre experience of hearing, seeing, speaking, or writing a word at the very moment (or within seconds) of encountering that very same word through other means. For example, I was heading to the hardware store to buy a propane tank for our gas grill. I got in the car, the radio came on, and a BBC British voice immediately uttered the word "propane" as a part of a story he was doing on gas production in Russia. It's like this every time.

Just five minutes ago, I was listening to a podcast and the narrator described a person as "pathetic" not one second after I typed the word "pathetic" into my instant messenger window.

I'm not a superstitious person. I don't believe in or adhere to any religious customs. And yet there's something beyond the conscious realm connecting here, I'm quite sure of that. So I ask you, dear reader, what's going on?