There have been a couple of incredible synchronistic moments in my life during the last two days. Moments that simply highlight how small my world has become.
Yesterday when the vcr ate my Steel Magnolia tape I used the computer to locate a DVD in a local store. At the store, holding that DVD, I met a woman with a little boy, who gushed, “I love that movie. That is how Jackson here, (she held up her little boy’s hand) got his name.”
And as she shared this information with me I received a text from Louisiana, in fact from the very town in Louisiana, where that movie was made!
Imagine that!
Today, I, who am often a very solitary person, went to the cinema to see a scary movie with four of my nearest and dearest. Afterwards we took a pizza home and sat around playing a Scrabble like game. Instead of playing it on a board, we played it on a computer and cell phones.
I ended up going home so I could use my own computer to play and once I was on line, found myself playing with several other people including my brother’s stepdaughter who lives near San Diego.
As I completed my turn with her, my brother called and I ended up talking to his wife who was simultaneously texting her daughter while the daughter and I played the game on the computer!
The circle of life expands to unite people all over the world while technology shrinks communication down to small town standards. Everyone is my roommate or neighbor now!
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