A couple of weeks ago I was heading into NYC from north central New Jersey. I put my NYC address in my GPS. It decided to send me via the George Washington Bridge after first indicating the Holland Tunnel. I complied with the instructions, figuring there must be some sort of traffic snarl along the other routes. Both the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels are closer to the East Village.
Heading Eastbound on Route 80, I was again diverted to a side road driving first past my “Shattered Reality Podcast” co-host’s place of business and then was sent directly to her home. I checked the GPS and somehow the address displayed had been changed without warning or incident to Kate Valentine’s home. I discovered this about a block before arriving and beat a hasty retreat, wondering how this could have happened. Her home address was one of my past locations but I hadn’t been there in several months. Also of interest is the fact that her place of business is not on a direct route between where I started and her home, so there would be no reason why I should have been taken there first.
Never before had the GPS malfunctioned in this way, and it gave no notice that the destination address had changed, as it should have done when the destination is changed. The GPS controls were never touched. The New York City address was again put in the GPS as I headed eastward on Route 80. In less than five minutes from leaving the proximity of the Valentine home, out of nowhere, Kate called me. I asked her politely about the purpose of the call and she said she didn’t know why she called. She just felt like calling me. Since the passing of our beloved audio engineer Bill in May, the podcast has been on hiatus and Kate and I speak a bit less than once a week.
I told her what had happened and she was aghast. Her home is set back from the road and has lots of trees and shrubbery obscuring any view of the road. We had turned around before reaching her house and it was twilight and we were in a very unremarkable black car, so clearly there was no way she could have seen me. There is no view of the road from inside the house. We decided it was a sign that we should endeavor to restart the podcast and maybe, just maybe it was a sign from beyond the veil from Bill.
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September 18, 2021 at 4:0 1
There are no coincidences.
September 18, 2021 at 4:0 1
There is truth in your statement! Thanks.
September 18, 2021 at 4:0 1
Yes! This is a sign! I long for Shattered Reality podcasts. I hope you and Kate can make this happen, soon! Kismet!
I will tune in!
Karliđź’“
September 18, 2021 at 4:0 1
Thanks, Karli! We would both like to continue as well.
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
Be careful of making decisions of interpretation in times of mind games of the unknown… sit on it and then decide to go forward or not
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
Wisdom in this idea too. Thanks.
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
hope you will continue your podcasts.
nina
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
Thanks, Nina. I hope so too.
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
Interesting…. Perhaps the veil is thinning?
A professor with whom I had a troubled relationship in grad school retired more than a decade ago and moved back to Long Island, where she had grown up. We had been out of contact for longer than that, as I went my own way in grad school, eventually, and she went hers.
Right after Labor Day, I happened to think about her. Out of the clear blue sky. Have no idea why. I just wondered if she was still alive. (Kinda macabre, no?) I thought about checking the internet for obits, but never go around to it.
Four or five days later, a friend sent me a notice. The professor had died the day before the friend wrote to me. The death was noted in the university’s website, and that’s how the friend had come to notice it. What was even more interesting was that the professor had returned to NC, to the hospital associated with the university where she had taught, rather than taking advantage of the many medical facilities in the NY area.
This means that I suddenly thought about this professor just 3-4 days before she died here in NC. I hadn’t thought of her in years. And I certainly didn’t know she’d returned to NC for anything.
The professor and I parted in unhappy circumstances, back in grad school. I have to wonder if the reason I suddenly thought of her just days before she died, and wondered then if she had died, might not have been because I was one of her “failures” in life, and as she was dying and rethinking what this life had been, I emerged as an unhappy memory…and those thoughts established an energetic connection between her and me.
Like I said, perhaps the veil is thinning?
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
The veil does seem to be thinning. Does it do so in times of widespread, I daresay worldwide, stress and trouble.
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
I think communication is more common in times of stress. Hope you can restart the podcast.
September 19, 2021 at 4:0 1
Thanks, Rox. I agree on both statements.