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From the pages of ‘stranger than fiction, good enough to be true, wowie zowie, hold on to your hats’… I was delighted that my friend Jewelee Landis was in from South Florida with her two beautiful little girls, Sabrina and Vanessa. I was looking for something for us to do that the kids would enjoy too. An inspiration came to me :\u00a0 Concerts Under the Stars in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania where I had attended musical delights over the years. Great out door venue, room to play, and they sometimes have kid’s performers. What I found was even better than that!\u00a0 Grammy Award winning<\/strong> Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience<\/strong> <\/em>was the perfect fit since I happen to know that Jewelee loves all things NOLA and that she and her family go to Jazz Fest every year.<\/div>\n
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SO, I get there before they arrive, set up a big blanket right near the stage and then wait. Shortly before they show up, I turn around and a man behind me asks if my last name is Weinstein. I smile and then laugh when I realize who it is. His name is Chris and I had met him the previous weekend while at the XPoNential Music Festival, sitting\u00a0with my cousin\u00a0Jody Rosenblum\u00a0and my friend Gary Schoenberg. He happened to be sitting behind me then too. I had noticed that he had a pin on his backpack that said FREE HUGS. Since I’m all about that, I gladly offered one and we had run into each other several times over that weekend. Last night, I invited him to sit with me and told him I was waiting for a friend. He said ” I know. It’s Jewelee Landis and our friend Virginia.” I asked how he knew her. It turns out that the 3 of them are flight attendants for USAir and he had seen on Jewelee’s\u00a0Facebook\u00a0page that she and I were planning to hang out together. When Jewelee, Virginia and the girls arrived, we all laughed at the cosmic joke. But wait, it gets even better(:\u00a0 Chris asked where the shaker egg was that he had given me last weekend in exchange for bubbles I had given him. I pulled it out of my backpack and Jewelee smiled again, since she had given Chris that egg!\u00a0 What are the chances that not only would Chris and I happen to be sitting in the same position at musical events two weekends in a row, that we would have this friend in common who was visting his home base who had\u00a0passed on\u00a0a gift that she had initially given him? Only 100% apparently!<\/div>\n
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A few more cosmically coincidental happenings in the past few days:<\/div>\n
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I am increasingly aware that the Universe is REALLY listening in to my conversations. On Saturday and then again today, I was speaking about a friend named\u00a0Kalie Marino\u00a0whose book Critical Addiction is in the editing stages. She has had a major life event\/loss occur and transpired when it was near completion. This was part of the topic of the conversations with our mutual friends. Less than 30 minutes after speaking with my friend\u00a0David DiPasquale about her, drum roll please….she called to\u00a0discuss\u00a0the book since I wrote the foreword and my editor is also now her editor.<\/div>\n
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Talk about immediate manna-festation…. I was looking at pictures on my fridge on Saturday of my friends Peter and Jackie Hurley-\u00a0Moses\u00a0and their magical 2 1\/2 year old son Shane. I haven’t seen them in a few months. Then\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0at Circle of Miracles, which is one of my spiritual communities, \u00a0thoughts of them crossed my mind once again. Within moments after the service ended, they walked through the door. Amazed but never surprised.\u00a0 They laughed about what a powerful creator I am. I wonder if they showed up because I thought of them or if I thought of them because they were planning on showing up?\u00a0 Either way, it reminds me of the inicstricable link between soul friends. I had such fun playing with Shane who was running, jumping, hugging, looking at himself in the mirror and rolling around on the floor.<\/div>\n
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There was a time in my life when I would have heard the Twilight Zone theme playing in my head at the mere thought of such synchronicities and now I see them as quite normal and natural. The more I allow myself to be a vessel or a hollow reed for the Divine to communicate,\u00a0with greater frequency these type of events will come through. Eager to see what’s next.<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/youtu.be\/Wqxgz6Zh8b0<\/a>\u00a0 Terrance Simien and The Zydeco Experience for a mere glimpse, nibble, sampling of the music we had the joy of experiencing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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