Coincidence / Providence?

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Coincidence  or Providence?

How many of both, is each of us doled out?

If there be billions of us crawling on the planet, there will be many with more of each in perception, and our sense of ‘self’ will believe a romantic interpretation, a ‘self value’ interpretation.

I, having paid attention to little of the details of living except coincidence and not knowing if others paid attention or cared to relate such, no norm can be established.

In my current state of desperation the only Coincidence or Providence I seek is the sale of my ‘goods’.

And yet it comes to fall that the Gods of Coincidence & Providence grant me more in another life pursuit, a friend, who likes what I like and sees life as I ‘Sea’ it, and actually likes me.

Most of humans are alone in marriages in gaggles of acquaintances, alone, still seeking, with the vaguest of understanding of who they are and what they seek.  

Yesterday as I dragged and rolled my tender up from the low tide ‘strand line’ a stranger asked if I wanted help, I said no, thanked him and as I had been alternately dragging and picking up rocks to study and wonder at what the little pieces of geologic history were saying and simultaneously asking my Gods to show me a ‘Gold doubloon’ or ‘Piece of  Eight’ , I jokingly added to the stranger that I was seeking such.  He smiled and said, ‘’you never know’’.  I smiled back.

True enough the Gods could indeed save me from financial disaster with a small gesture.

Instead the Gods ‘small gesture’ was a little Irish leprechaun seeking me out with smiles and hugs.

Coincidence, since for many years on the boat I had a foggy longing that this little leprechaun would come fresh from Ireland to my boat and actually like me.

            When dreams come true like the sky at night lighting for a second from a ‘lightning bolt’’

             You smile and appreciate and fear it will be no more than that moment of illumination and you must accept dreams only last a second.