Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. I have had computer problems for over a year, and no access to the internet, no phone, hook-up, etc. Illness has played a role in things too, but more than anything I just don't have the money to fix the computer and/or to have a phone connection. Hard to imagine I would ever have these things happen, but.... There are reasons for everything. I am not disconnected to the world though. Pardon any spelling errors as I type with new bifocals that aren't working.

 

Today I am at a friend's house in Cincinnati and thought, I have a moment, add an entry. For the past year I have been documenting my days as best I can on the home computer, which does not have access to the internet, but still, I document the best I can. Someday someone will look at what I have and figure out the probabilities for coincidence in my "random choices".

 

Everyday I try to do a random anagram from comics in the newspaper. I pick a text bubble and anagram it. Everytime I do that I find something of interest, kinda' like OPUS does when the anagrammer is in. I realize many people don't believe in the Bible Code or synchronicity or coincidence...and probably think a lot of the "magical thinking" has more to do with psychosis than creativity, but earlier this morning I was looking for something and came across the word pareidol, in trying to explain things I see in photos, on the wall in my house, in everyday objects. The word was found on the skeptic.com site, "pareidol". Seemed a good place to pull a "fact". As it happens, I am also a fan of comics, and since I do anagrams from a random pick everyday, decided to look at the ones online, since I had no paper this morning. Coincidence brought me Natural Selection's comic, http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crns/2007/crns070622.gif which was exactly what I needed to also give an example. Two kids lying on the floor at Grandpa's house, he is on the couch, shirtless, and they are looking at his back. One is saying, "That one looks like a rabbit and the big brown one with a hair looks like..." You get the idea, that is just an example. That is how things work for me, everyday. Like a stream of consciousness, it a certain order, and I try to write it down as it happens.

 

I was also trying to find a word for my comics anagramming, and found "apophenia", which means "spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena". Well, I took it to mean something I see in comics and put together on a random yet predictable daily basis. It could mean I am crazy, but it works for me.  I see my comics connection as a cosmic connection. Maybe I am just dyslexic. I used to use the entire comic when I posted here more frequently, but when I use the newspaper, I just pick one.  It amazes me how often the headlines of the day are in the anagrams, and it really doesn't matter what day I pick them, or which one I pick. It does have meaning to me in some way. As i said, I have a year's worth of doing this sort of thing everyday, so maybe I am just obsessed, I document as to times when something in the anagram is said on TV, writing the channel and the time down as we are on the same word or concept. So maybe there is something to the chaos theory that lands in my head everyday. Or maybe not.

 

When I was getting ready to come to Cincinnati on Wednesday, I suddenly decided to look for a piece of jewelry. I have been living in such a way that I rarely use it anymore, so I had to do some looking. It was interesting then, when I came to the box that had my grandmother's old rosary in it, I paused a moment, and touched it, and then with MSNBC Live News on in the background I made a "connection". Two women newscasters were suddenly talking about using the rosary as one is driving down the street and possibly going into a trance or something. Reader, you can research it, I can't at the moment. I don't really know what the segment was about at this point. I just laughed, because I knew it was one of those moments, I was at that moment holding a rosary that had been in a  box buried under all kinds of stuff and they were talking about a rosary on TV. My delusion or apophenia probably, eh?  I did not find the piece I was looking for, but that doesn't matter. Life works, and I go with the flow the best I can. I miss writing on here every day, and may well have scared off or bored people with what I have written or shown, but in my own little way I am trying to contribute to their sense of faith, hopefulness, and understanding of something that happens, simple presence maybe, to give them a sense of peace and acceptance in their lives. I am no psychic, or prophet, I am just one of God's children that feels a validation of something "there". I need a lot of that, so I get a lot of it. Some do say that the more you are aware of synchronicities the more you see them. Well, I see and hear them all day long.

 

 

 

 

 

This thing I do...I really need someone to look at what I have documented, to tell me what they think other than that I am shoehorning, because I am not, and others need to read these random anagrams to see what they think the real message is here. I know what it means to me, and here is an old example of that on line:http://www.geocities.com/artezian01/love_page.html 

 

Last week there was mention in my anagrams about atheists and the next day I saw it in a comic strip, and a couple of days later, there was OPUS's http://comics.com/wash/opus/archive/images/opus2007061174577.jpg.

 

I believe someone does know everything I think and that we or myself and I play the universe game through comics and anagrams and newspapers and TV shows and news programs. What does it mean? I have my opinion and you can tell me yours.  Next time I am online I can read it. In the meantime, pick a random comic strip and try your hand at anagramming, one frame or the whole thing. See if you get the same kind of results I do. I can't be the only one...even Berkeley breathed.