A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: Reader Contribution - "It was all about the Continental one-pass mile" - a 9/11 tribute to life, death and all the questions in between

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Friday, September 9, 2011

Reader Contribution - "It was all about the Continental one-pass mile" - a 9/11 tribute to life, death and all the questions in between

My friend and neighbor Maureen MCrae, sent me this about her life long friends Theresa and ken. This is the story in Theresa's words -

In September, 2001, my husband worked for Morgan Stanley in Tower 2 on the 64th floor. Being an ex-fireman, he was the Fire Warden for his floor at the time and eager to help in an emergency. On September 11, 2001, he was not at work that day, as he flew out late in the evening on September 10th on a flight that left from Newark and was heading to San Francisco. He was not supposed to be on this flight, as he made a last minute change. Fortunately, he arrived safely and stayed at a hotel – which was across the street from a federal building that was under evacuation due to bomb threats. Airlines were shut down, so he tried to take a train home… but the train shut down because there were bomb threats… After he and three co-workers drove across country with a very sick pregnant woman and returned home, he pulled out the paperwork from his original flight…

It read, “9/11/01, United Flight 93, Departs 8:00 a.m., Newark to San Francisco." I asked him, “What made you change that United flight?” He answered, “It was all about the Continental One-Pass mile”