{"id":177,"date":"2010-12-17T10:26:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T10:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2010\/12\/catch-a-one-liner-with-your-morning-coffee.html"},"modified":"2010-12-17T10:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T10:26:49","slug":"catch-a-one-liner-with-your-morning-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/12\/catch-a-one-liner-with-your-morning-coffee.html","title":{"rendered":"Catch a one-liner with your morning coffee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"coffee.jpg\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

One of my favorite
\ncoincidence games is also one of the very simplest. It’s to catch a one-liner
\nfor the day from what the world gives you. This may be the vanity plate on the
\ncar in front of you, or the logo on a truck, or a sign in a window or on a
\nbillboard, or an overheard snatch of conversation, or the first thing that
\ncomes on the car radio, or a Facebook ad, or the first line you read when you open a book at
\nrandom.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>One morning my daily one-liner was presented to me in a very
\nmundane way, but it was a keeper – a banner for any day of the year. Over
\nbreakfast (which I usually skip when at home) I opened our local paper to the
\nlocal page (something I do maybe three times a year). There, sprawling across
\nthe page under the local news, backed by a green mountain landscape, was this
\nline from an ad for a brand of coffee:<\/span><\/p>\n

I realized that today is the
\nday I write the story of my life.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>If I wanted to play with
\nthis, I might try out this version: “Wake up and smell the story.” But the
\noriginal is perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>Within minutes, two friends
\ncontributed daily one-liners from equally non-exotic sources. Determined to
\navoid surgery for knee problems, one of them had scheduled an appointment for a
\nnew form of therapy that morning. When a pop-up daily horoscope appeared on her
\ncomputer she decided that instead of deleting it (her normal practice) she
\nwould see if it gave her a message on her new treatment for her knee Her
\nhoroscope read: <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Your creative solutions to difficult problems can be
\nlegendary, and today, you bust out with a new one<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

After discussing the
\nsymbolism of “gateways” in life with me, the other friend went to her desk and
\nfound that this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson popped up on her perpetual
\ncalendar: <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension
\nwaiting to be struck<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Now, that’s another banner for any day.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> I might say more, but my current one-liner from a mundane source – an ad that popped up on my Facebook page – reads:<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Write the damned book proposal<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/span>Playing by my own rules, I have to take on that assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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