The concept of COINCIDENCE has come up before on SuperForest. That strange occurance when the six degrees of life suddenly smack together in one place. Jackson posted epically about his personal coincidence explosion last month (which is well worth revisiting). And I don’t know how many of you out there have had such chance encounter(s), but they seem to have always been a staple of my life.
I’ve run into middle school friends in basement jazz bars in Florence; literally bumped into a water polo colleague from Hawaii in front of the skull of the oldest human being in New York’s Natural History Museum; reconnected with a classmate from San Salvador, Brazil on a secluded Hawaiian beach on which we were the only people. Coincidences like these rarely surprise me much anymore. I’ve embraced them as part of the wonderful, mysterious way in which we are all connected .
But never have I randomly stumbled upon a small world coincidence via the internet. Never before today.
Here’s how this came to be. I was doing a google image search for a story Aaron and I are developing, looking for photographs of Old Hawaii. Which was search number. Ancient Hawaii was google’d next. And so on until 8 pages down on my “Vintage Hawaii” search I found this:
And this:
(photos via coconutsandcoppertone)
And my jaw dropped five feet and the drool did spilleth into a pool on the floor. Because what I was looking at, of all things was not only the one “not vintage Hawaii” photograph in the entire search, but was in fact photographs of people I and you SuperForesters all know and dearly love.
The incandescent Augustine and Mea!
Original tenants of Zero One. Humans extraordinaire. And as Jackson just informed me today, proud parents of a beautiful baby girl NAIA!
What a surprise, what a joy to stumble upon them in this context. I felt as if I’d found a secret left just for me, a virtual message in a bottle reminding me that friends are never far, and that the world, no matter how big, or how fast we grow, only gets smaller. Today I mean that in the best of ways.
Congratulations Augustine and Mea on your new life. May it grow as beautiful and radiant as yourselves and the land you tender with respect and love.
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