Sitting at the morning meal table the other day, my wife suddenly blurted out, "Why don't we go to the library today?" I was shocked. That very instant I was reasoning the same thing. I stopped in mid-chew. How did she know that I was reasoning about returning those two books I decided not to read? Was it coincidence that my wife understanding about the library just then or was she a genius, or clairvoyant? I dismissed the genius-clairvoyant idea; I had known her too long. Besides, she hadn't guessed last year's surprise Christmas gift. It must be a miracle.
Take our Niagara Falls trip as an example. Over the years, my wife casually mentioned how a trip to the falls might be fun. Since I knew she is joking, I didn't pay much attention. Joking? That's one way to express blessed ignorance after forty-five years of marriage.
One year I called her bluff. When we went out for dinner on February 14, I asked her what she'd like for Valentine's Day. Out of the blue she said, "I'd like a trip to Niagara Falls." I was dumbfounded. She hadn't mentioned that for years. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the airline tickets and the motel and rental car reservations for a surprise trip to Niagara Falls.
Coincidence? Maybe, but it's happened too often, with too much accuracy. reasoning telepathy? No, there has to be a miracle here somewhere.
Do trivial miracles categorically work? Let me give you a reoccurring example. We are on a weekend get away, driving all day, with an overnight stop at a motel. Before lunch we pass three dozen billboards advertising fast food joints, family restaurants, and posh dinning establishments, most of which we never heard of before. About eleven o'clock I propose one that takes my fancy and she's been reasoning of the same restaurant. It doesn't matter either it's a half hour or two hours away, or either we are familiar with the place or not; we both pick the same restaurant. There's only one explanation: the miracle of cooperative thinking.
Some say that after years together two people, responding to the same stimuli, begin to think alike. Logical, but we are living proof that opposites attract. Our ideas about handling money, raising six children, when to paint the living room, or go shopping differ widely. She reads one novel after the other; I read non fiction. I'm a meat eater; she could be a happy vegetarian. I could go on and on.
Once I understanding I was close to a semi-scientific break through on this. It must be a series of sympathetic vibrations resulting from years of agreeing and disagreeing about leading matters and trivialities. The vibration part is important, I told myself. But one day I realized that this sympathetic reasoning doesn't work on positive items or over long distances.
For instance, the other day my wife sent me to the store for a jar of olives. Before I left, she described the type of olives she wanted, the brand, and the photo on the jar. I could have written down the instructions, but I'm a grown man with two degrees. When I finally found the olive section, I was appalled at the choices. Did she say green olives with a pit or pimento? Or was it ripe olives? A large or small jar? There were four distinct brands to select from. For the life of me, I couldn't get a particular sympathetic vibration. Embarrassed, I complete my eyes and reached for the most coarse brand. It was the right one. Nothing less than a miracle.
I've given up on the pseudo-scientific theories. Cooperative recollection just doesn't work long distance or on technical matters like picking a jar of olives. Sympathetic thinking, compatible brain waves, or cooperative recollection doesn't have sufficient pizzazz. I've decided not to fight the miracle angle. In fact, if I'm clever, I could turn this to my advantage. A new computer beckons every time I pass the electronics branch at Walmart. Concentration, reasoning awareness, sympathetic brain waves aren't going to cut it. There has to be a miracle here somewhere.
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