Serendipitous Much?

Today is full of coincidences. It's sort of creeping me out, but mostly is just reminding me that sometimes I am in the total flow of the universe and powers beyond me come together and sort of swoop me up into the current. Life feels a little effortless and I couldn't be more grateful for the way things are working out today. I won't bore you with the details of how my schedule is magically working itself out, but I will share one little nugget of my life's convergences today.


Recently I've been really into the British electronic soul artist James Blake. Last week, when the stars were not aligning in my life, I missed his sold out show because I am a dumb ass and didn't get on top of a ticket. Oops. Blake's music is haunting yet soothing, subtle in its electro influence and deeply soulful. I jokingly dubbed his music "etherealwave." The track "Lindisfarne" is the meditative center of his new self-titled debut album--it's got a rad video too. Here's where the coincidence comes in: in reading a spirituality newsletter that I receive I came across a piece about, you guessed it, Lindisfarne! No mention of James Blake, however. That's because Blake's song takes the name of an island off the coast of North East England called Lindisfarne, or "holy island." Whoa man, explosions in my brain of the coincidence overload persuasion. Let's hope all this syncing up bodes well for the day rather than being a bad omen.

PS: Spell check suggested that instead of Lindisfarne I meant windsurfing. Ha.

PPS: James Blake is totally hot.

'Tis April No More

May by Mary Oliver

May, and among the miles of leafing,
blossoms storm out of the darkness—
windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees
dive into them and I too, to gather
their spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirs
is the deepest certainty that this existence too—
this sense of well-being, the flourishing
of the physical body—rides
near the hub of the miracle that everything
is a part of, is as good
as a poem or a prayer, can also make
luminous any dark place on earth.