Something More Than Coincidence

I will take this opportunity while Landon is in his 13th consecutive hour of straight sleep (for the first time in his life, mind you) to check in with this blog.

Much to write about, but most of my thoughts will have to be put off for another day.

However, there is one thing that I have to write about.

I am not much of a believer in coincidences being "fate" or "acts of God" or what have you. However, at book club last night, I brought up my good friend B who passed away in 1999. It was hard for my entire group of friends, and I was especially affected because we had been very close and I had lived with her family for 3 summers while I was in drum corps. Anyway, I don't talk about her very much but I do think of her often. Anyway, last night she came up in the context of another story I was telling. It was nice to say her name and think about her when in the company of friends.

After book club, I dropped C off at her house and drove home by myself. I happened to turn the radio to a country station (I am not a big country fan and have it on my dial for the occasional song that I recognize). It was the CMT country countdown and right as I started listening, they played a song from a new artist called "Lover, Lover." Whoa. B and I had a vast repertoire of songs for all of our car rides and we would sing and laugh and dance in the car. This happened to be one of those songs. "Lover, Lover" was originally recorded by Sonia Dada in the early 90's and it is a great tune - very catchy and easy to sing along to. Hearing this "countrified" version brought back so many memories and I sang at the top of my lungs while speeding down I-25 on the way home. How random that a song that practically nobody has ever heard of just HAPPENED to get remade into a contemporary tune and I just HAPPENED to hear it just 60 minutes after I had talked about my sweet friend.

Again, I don't often attribute those types of situations to "something from above", but I couldn't help but think of B sending a shout out to me from the giant DJ booth in the sky. :)

I miss you, B.