Yesterday was a beautiful longest day of the year, June 21st-Summer Solstice. I decided to celebrate and met a good friend for lunch at a local restaurant called Fino's. We were seated at a delightful booth with a window view. Our friendly bubbly waitress, Denise had THE hairstyle I had been longing to have but couldn't find a hairstylist who could craft this kind of haircut on my head! I immediately asked her, "WHO does your hair?" then she told me the name of the local salon and proceeded to bring me a business card for the stylist. I peered at the little card and noticed the NAME of the stylist was MARY- who also happened to be the owner of the salon. (Mary was my Mom's name and I have long felt that I've been and continue to be Divinely led to meeting wonderful friends with the same name...."Mary" and even tho Mary is a popular name, I have had far too many "coincidences revolving around the name "Mary") I put the business card into my purse and we gazed at the menu, percolating on what we wanted to have for lunch. Not a big selection of vegetarian fare except for "vegetable stir fry" (too salty), or spinach pie (had spinach pie the last two nites for dinner!), or breakfast ("served 24 hours") eggs of all kinds, but the veggie omelette consisted of "tomatoes, mushrooms, and green peppers"... can you say B-O-R-I-N-G?!-I decided on a Greek salad and it was delicious! While we were eating our salads, I glanced up toward the bar/counter area where they had a flatscreen TV in silence mode broadcasting the latest "news" on CNN.... My eyes immediately veered to the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen as it displayed, "Living Laser" and I read how scientists had discovered they could create a type of laser light from biological cells of human and jellyfish! Inside I chuckled tho as I was thinking, "it's about time!" and "DUH....of COURSE, ALL living beings are MADE of LIGHT! and, "Why do they think they have to takeTWO separate biologic entities to create LIGHT when they only need ONE?!" but I digress...
However, I did begin to see a resonance, a type of synchronicity occurring in my day....as I felt I was led to the restaurant, led to the CNN news flash, led to the food server with a big smile and fabulous hairstyle! Hmmmm...After lunch I got into my car and proceeded to call "Mary" to arrange an appointment for my fabulous new haircut. I was thinking she wouldn't be able to fit me in until later in the week, like Thursday or Friday. Instead, I was greeted by a very friendly voice who said "I can fit you in today at 5:45PM." WOW! "how's THAT for manifestation?" I thought to myself! "Yes, of course, thank you....I'll see you then." I replied. The timing was perfect as I had enough time to go home and "slap on" some "Terracotta Blonde" no ammonia, far-fewer-toxic-chemicals European deep red hair color onto my prematurely grey head. Sitting on the sofa,with haircolor gooped onto my head and draped with an old towel, a laptop on my lap, and cuddly Dachshund snoozing at my side - I began to ponder with awe at how the timing of all of the events of today seemed so Divinely orchestrated and that I was one of the stars in this synchronistic movie! I felt like an observer, a moviegoer who was thoroughly enJOYing this movie I both starred in and was viewing. After the hair color job was complete, I dressed and set out to meet "Mary" at the salon. I walked thru the door and was joyfully greeted with a smile and introduction. I felt a familiarity with Mary... a kindness~ and as I sat in the beauty chair we conversed like old friends. I soon discovered that she had a large family of seven siblings, that her Mom had also passed on and that she was very close to her Mom as I was with mine who had also passed. I sweetly announced that I was so excited to be seeing my favorite band in the world, U2 perform this Sunday in Lansing, MI. Then Mary said she had a brother who loved U2's music as well. Something inside me said "ask her if he's single!" so I did. I learned he was in fact a single man, and the more we talked, the more Mary discovered that I and her bachelor brother had in common! She said she would tell him about me and encourage him to contact me! I was giddy with excitement at the thought of meeting a new friend at the least and a lifelong companion at most. I drove home with the BEST haircut I ever received and a big smile on my face. Thank you Angels, thank you God!
