Plugging in...

I’m rockin’ a pretty wicked headache as I begin to write this. Hopefully the Aleve I just took will live up to the claims on its packaging and fix me with only one tablet. I don’t usually get headaches. I’ve been meaning to get to Macy’s to pick up some new pillows, and maybe my too-squishy pillows have something to do with why my head feels like this. Sure, that’s the easy explanation. But I’m pretty sure the headache is a direct result from plugging into the Matrix yesterday.

Quick back-story, I try to have 2-3 books going at all times because I like to have options for nighttime reading. Here is what’s stacked by my bed…
The Geography of Bliss – genre: Travel Writing/Nonfiction. One man’s hilarious and insightful search for where and why people are the happiest.
A Clash of Kings – genre: Fantasy. Lord of the Rings if there were more humans, no hobbits, and a couple extra dragons.
Spring Snow – genre: Japanese/Literature. A melancholy boy with long eyelashes is mean to some girl (I only just started it).

Within a 24-hour period I read portions of each of these three titles, all from very different genres and at varied points within each of the books…and all three authors used the phrase “cheek-by-jowl.” WHAT?! I’ve never read that phrase anywhere before, much less reading it in three different books on the same day. Weird, right? Believe me, it’s weird. Twice is a coincidence. Three is borderline freaky (which I believe was the original title for Three’s Company). An obvious glitch in the Matrix.

Convinced this was the Universe’s way of trying to communicate something to me, I made sure to keep myself open to anything and everything yesterday. And three times (there’s that “three” again) throughout the day I had what I can only describe as psychic experiences, immediately confirmed in each instance by the individual about whom I was having a premonition. The final instance set my neck hair standing on end. There was absolutely no rhyme or reason to any of it, and if there was some specific message I was supposed to get, I totally missed it. But it was there.

I can’t be alone in feeling that some days we are more connected to the swirling mists of the One Universal Consciousness. There’s too much out there that can’t be explained. There’s probably enough for another X Files movie even. I’m going to keep my eyes and ears open, and a full supply of Aleve in my desk drawer, from now on.

And as I remembered while talking to my mom on the phone earlier, I did have a dream about Keanu Reeves last night. Whoa.



I let you know as soon as I download Kung Fu lesson,

gretch