Cosmos sending a message

So, I have kept a running tally of the strange coincidences (existential investigators, are you hearing this??) that have occurred to me over the past two years. Now, these may sound mundane and ordinary, but I have a feeling these are no ordinary coincidences! Yes, it is clearly the cosmos sending me a message, of what I have yet to interpret/decipher but I will get there one day...

To tally up the coincidences:

I found a clipboard written with "property of (persons name)" ...and I had just gotten an email from my then-new job, sadly telling of the death of that very same person that day! I put the clipboard back, I didn't want to tempt fates.

The second is more mundane and less dangerous. I was taking the bus, on a route I never usually take because I drive to work. I was carrying my gym clothes to and from work, and one day found my gym socks lying on the side of the path I was walking to the bus. Odd, they must have fallen out. I picked them up a bit abashedly and continued on the way. When I got home, I found my actual gym socks--they'd never even left the house! I had picked up a pair of socks that looked exactly the same, and these weren't white gym socks, they were bizarre blue fuzzy pink and white argyle socks. One of a kind.

The third coincidence was a book. This past weekend I was talking up a book, The Glass Castle,by Jeanette Walls (great book, by the way. So powerful!), and I mentioned that a friend had it, and maybe I could borrow it to lend to her. I was looking forward to sharing thoughts about the book with my friend. We set out downtown that afternoon to do some shopping, and stopped by to drop off recycling at Raven Recycling. I browsed the free store for books, and lo and behold, there sat The Glass Castle. It was fate! I snatched it up and gave it to my friend. But still, this isn't the type of book that is just everywhere, like say, A Million Little Pieces or something. It is hard to find, and you have to seek it out. And there it was, waiting for me to give to my friend, who I'd been talking to about it.

Clearly there is a larger message in the works here. What can these coincidences mean?

Eerie Coincidences

I'm revisiting a series of strange coincidences today. Not sure if you recall the 'missing sock' episode of earlier this spring, well I am now experiencing coincidences that are much stranger and creepy--they involve...death!

I recently started a new job, and within a week at that new job the news was passed around that an esteemed colleage had a celebrated a birthday then consequently passed away, doing poorly at a pallative care centre. That news washed over me like much of the overinformation I was exposed to, until I read the email that he died merely a week after his birthday.

That was sad, and that day I was digging around through supplies until I found a clipboard and snatched it up, pretty sweet score. I glanced at my find and noticed it had a name written on it, 'property of' and it was the man who had died that day.

Not willing to risk fate, I put the clipboard back. I'm not that eager to encourage the wrath of angry gods, or anything like that. Creepy.

I'm also on a bit of a Pat Conroy kick, having read The Prince Of Tides and thoroughly enjoyed it. I moved on to Beach Music and read the acknowledgement and thank-you page before the prologue, and came up on a mention of a brother who died by his own hand in 1995. He comitted suicide August 31st, and I started that book yesterday, which was also August 31st.

Another bizarre and eerie coincidence! Now I am set to puzzle over these occurences, and consider what they are trying to tell me. I had a teacher who once postulated that to dream of a death, or a loved one dying, meant that in real life it was a positive, that you would hear from someone you hadn't contacted in ages and that you missed.

I hope it's something similar, and not sinister...