Patterns

Sometimes, perhaps all the time, it takes an outsider to discover patterns and meaning, if there is a meaning to be found in those patterns, as we often hope, and often ascribe meaning to meaningless events.  Which brings to mind fortune tellers, astrologers, Tarot cards readers and other occult and New Age professionals to whom we turn to discern meaning, and for a fee they'll happily discover it for us.  But I digress.

Things have been happening for the past couple of months, things dramatic, traumatic, with outsiders, family, strangers, one local government agency involved, I won't go into details here today.  (No one's dead, no one's in prison.) My sister-in-law visiting from across the continent here and parts North with her husband the past few days discerned a pattern when told the story of recent events. She had been informed of them earlier, anyway, and had paid another  visit two months earlier.

"Look, every two weeks on the dot something happens," she said.  "Since something did happen last Saturday, expect another event in two weeks!"

And the meaning of it?  Of the two week pattern? She's gone now, but busy minds are working on figuring it out.