Co-incidences in the mid-to-late teens

We have not posted since 2013, but today Lucia in Durham sent me and my other friend Julia G. an email with this link that she discovered on my Goodreads profile.

I looked at the old entries, including the early ones when I lived on the coast of Southern Maine (and Julia lived with her mom and still worked in an office and had just met her wife.)

Additionally, on my way home tonight, I started brainstorming group call-and-response songs that I could lead the 3rd graders in tomorrow morning when it is my turn to lead the 3rd Grade Morning Meeting at my school. I thought of one, Hey Hey Bo Diddly Bop, which I learned from my friend Andrew and led routinely during one year that is well documented on this blog (2011.) 

When I arrived home, I checked the mailbox. A postcard from my friend Andrew! In the postcard he said that he had moved back to Portland, ME! See you soon, he wrote.

(And I just thought of this one. I was already thinking of Andrew this morning, even before Lucia's email. Andrew always likes to spell my name with a lot of silent "g's." Today, I visited a 5th grade classroom and one student spells her name "Leigha." It's the first time I saw that spelling for real! It does exist!)

things that are the exact same color as other things

Contents of my bag

1. slingshot planner
2. mypod
3. my dangerous desires by amber hollibaugh 
4. mywalit
5. checkbook
6. keys
7. pens
8. lunch: quirky salad (baby kale, pea shoots, refried beans, avocado, radish, feta) and strawberries and a mini banana

Canadian artist Jon Rafman finds moments of synchronicity on Google Street Views

things that are the exact same color as other things

Submitted by Amy F.

images left on the computers in the antioch university new england computer resource room

Contents of my bag

in the big pocket

1. a whole loaf of Baker's Bounty health bread -- slice it yourself
2. my ipod ("mypod")
3. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
4. last week's NYT magazine
5. umbrella from Caroline's work
6. slingshot planner
7. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories, by Carson McCullers
8. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities, by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
9. my wallet (actually, my walit)
10. important (???) letters from my health insurance that I haven't opened yet but keep bringing to work because I think I'll do something with them there

in the small pocket

1. many loose individually wrapped non-applicator tampons
2. some tea bags (woman's moon cycle, chai)
3. a pen that doesn't work very well but is not out of ink yet, so
4. Ricola cough drops original herb flavor (mitte zucher)
5. my keys
6. business cards for the nanny, housekeeper, elder caregiver and employer hotline run by Domestic Workers United