Coincidences No.s 876, 877, 878 & 879
No. 876 Ruth
Jennifer Grey & Charlie Sheen in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)
I go to see ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ this evening, for the first time on the big screen since the late 80s. In the scene between Jennifer Grey and Charlie Sheen in the police station there is a glimpse of a wanted poster on the wall. The wanted person is Ruth Wilson.
I recently completed a documentary entitled ‘Vanished’. It is about a school girl who went missing in the mid-90s. She was called Ruth Wilson. She is still missing/wanted (by her friends).
No. 877 Ghana
I am listening to my old acquaintance Philippe Sands’ podcast ‘Intrigue: The Ratline‘ about a Nazi who escaped justice by fleeing to Rome and perhaps Latin-America after that (I haven’t finished the story yet). In the episode I’m on at present there is an ex-leader of the Hitler Youth. He became an advisor to the government of Ghana after the war as he evaded justice too.
I am working on a documentary about an Afro-American man who flees to Ghana, repatriating himself after becoming increasingly ill-at-ease in his native USA.
No. 878 Welling
Wellins
Enfant Terrible No. 2 starts a job in a school in a place I have never heard of in Kent, not far out of London. It is called Welling. I know Wellingborough in Northamptonshire where my first bank account was located. I know Bobby Wellins the saxophonist who gave us the haunting ‘Starless and Bible Black’, one of the greatest of jazz tunes. But Welling means nothing to me.
On the tube on the way home the next day there is a story in the Evening Standard about a wheelchair-bound man who is in court after running down two old ladies at a bus stop. The outrage took place in Welling.
No. 879 Seven Dials
Where seven streets meet
I write an email to a colleague I am due to meet the next day at Red Bull Media. I ask him where their new offices are. He replies by email: Seven Dials, Covent Garden.
I open the email from Red Bull. I am standing on the street – at Seven Dials.
Just, a question… you are keeping a diary of coincidences? This happened yesterday? And what do you think of them?
I make a mental note of them when they happen and jot them down (here) from time to time. I am interested in the one’s where they are 100% coincidence – no possible influence from my alertness or consciousness, just two things intersecting. The best example of that is the Bigger Splash one which I’ll try to dig out for you. I am interested in connections because I see that as the basis of creativity.
(BTW you’ll appreciate the fact that my birthday is 11th September.)
That is a bit peculiar indeed.
Here is the post about A Bigger Splash – the start of this collecting of coincidences.
https://aarkangel.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/the-hope-of-pattern/
And to answer your other question, the above occurred over the last few days, not on a single day.
My life is riddled with peculiar coincidences. I have made notes of them but I some point I stopped. Lots of stuff similar to yours. A few of the most interesting I have posted on my blog, so I give you the links:
https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/01/09/so-there-is-something-more/
https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/09/10/on-numerology/
https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/06/06/meaningful-coincidences/
https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/01/01/the-curse-of-the-omen/
There is a rational explanation for this however:
https://theplanforthefuture.org/2018/01/17/the-simulation-argument/