My Intuition Blog Experiment: Coincidental Phrasing

It's Week 38, Day 1 of my blog experiment and this happens to me a lot. I'll read a book and hear a phrase that pops up again and again for no obvious reason. It's already happened twice this week. After I wrote my last blog post about time, the Shakespeare quote, "Past is prologue" came to mind. Then, it was referenced in a Patti Callahan Henry novel I'm reading. Then I ran across it on the Internet.

Even stranger, in that same novel, Between the Tides, there's an image of a fireplace big enough for a child to sit in. The next day after reading that passage, my mom told me a story about a retreat center she had visited years ago with a fireplace big enough to crawl inside. Now, what are the chances she would mention such a specific image that I had just pictured? I love it when this happens because it makes me feel like my whole world is somehow tied together, in some sort of springy, cosmic spider webbing. Even if it's in ways I can't understand, it's comforting to think that thoughts do more than just float away into the stratosphere, that maybe they bounce around and sometimes boomerang back. But, I have no clue what it all means. Am I supposed to pay attention to these coincidences because there are messages in them? Are the words themselves important messages? Is it just evidence that there is some flow and pattern to the universe and we just have to ride the jet stream? For now, all I can do is listen and continue to pay attention. Maybe they'll make sense in time.