TheBanyanTree: inconsequential everyday freakish incidents

[Julie Anna Teague]

Did anyone notice, on NPR this morning, that reporter Libby Lewis was reporting
on the trial of Cheney's former top aide Lewis Libby?  I love it when that kind
of thing happens.  What are the odds?  As I told some friends awhile back, I got
plum googly-brained when an NPR reporter stumbled through a mention of "Minority
Whip Dick Durbin".  I spent the rest of the morning laughing to myself and
twisting my tongue around that.  And now the Libby Lewis on Lewis Libby thing. 
By god, I thought, I have to tell someone about this!  

It may strike you as odd, the things I get excited about.  But when life gives
us word play or tongue twisters or just odd coincidences, it makes me smile. 
When someone  spills an off-the-cuff sentence in which every word begins with B.
 When I  glance at the clock and it is 11:11 or 12:34.  Or balance my checkbook
and subtract the check I just wrote from my balance of 90.85 and get 58.09.  (It
has happened!)  I was once married to a man whose age digits always added up to
the same number as my age digits, exept when I turned a round number: 24 and 33,
25 and 34.  Turns out it was fluke, not fate, but interesting just the same. 

To me, there is a fleck of the miraculous in every coincidence, every
unexplainable oddity, every fortuitous glance at the clock, every second of
synchronicity, every time unconnected things connect themselves for a brief
moment in time, roll themselves into a ball, slip into my ear, and lodge
themselves in my head.  And leave me, here, walking around with this head full
of tiny miracles.

Julie