Coincidence

I’d like to share something with you that I consider rather wonderful. Normally, I get up, make a cup of decaf and glance at the morning paper. Then I put on a tape and do my daily T’ai Chi Chih. But this morning, after glancing at the newspaper dateline and realizing that a deadline was approaching for a calligraphy project I had promised, I went into my workroom, found the paper I planned to use, got out the samples of styles, found the pens and then…where was the poem I planned to use? It should have been with the lettering samples and the preliminary layout sheet I had started. But no, it was not there. I searched and searched through stacks of this and piles of that–but the poem was nowhere to be found.

Resigned to a tedious research for the poem, I decided to do T’ai Chi Chih, then look for it later on. So, I put on the music, opened the patio door, felt the cooling breeze (I needed it by this time) and did my T’ai Chi while looking through the welcome rain at a barren apple tree. After completing the movements and a lengthy Cosmic Consciousness Pose, I turned off the tape, walked directly to my purse, put my hand into an open side pocket and withdrew–you’ve guessed it–the poem. I can’t say for certain why I would look in my purse, but I have an idea why I was LED to it.

– Lois Mahaney
San Lorenzo, CA