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Fact One: Carl Jung coined the term synchronicity to refer to those “meaningful coincidences” that haven’t any causal relationship but still seem somehow to be meaningfully related.
Fact Two: Last week I was at Woody’s Automotive having the oil changed on my car. In the waiting area there was a table of old magazines — mostly People and Car and Driver and Sports Illustrated. But there was also a paperback book of short stories by Somerset Maugham. I thumbed through it, saw a story that began My wife is a very unpunctual woman and began to read it. I got distracted by a phone call and never finished the story, so when I paid my bill I asked if I could take the book with me.
Fact Three: Sonya shot this absolutely wonderful photograph for the current Iron Photographer gig. I loved it the moment I saw it, and I wanted to put it here, on the Front Page of Utata. I noodled around with some ideas for the text, but nothing felt quite right. I decided to have lunch.
Fact Four: I began to finish the Somerset Maugham short story while I ate lunch. In the story, a gentleman’s unpunctual wife fails altogether to arrive at Claridge’s for lunch. However, he notices an old friend — Lady Elizabeth Vermont. And I read this:
She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.
Fact Five: Here is your Front Page. My thanks to Carl Jung, Somerset Maugham, and Sonya Butler.
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