my superpowers.

I know it’s a bit late (early?) to be making New Year’s resolutions but I made one last night anyway.
I am going to write something every day. I was recently reading the blog of a friend/writer I admire and figured that the only way to go about it is to write like crazy. (duh.) I’m also re-reading Harriet The Spy. Always good motivation.

So. I have this thing that happens to me on a pretty regular basis. I’ll think about someone and then I’ll see them. And it happened yesterday twice. I was at the ocean and for some reason this guy named Ben entered my mind. He’s a busker I met at the library one day a few weeks ago and I’ve seen him around a few times since. Whenever we see eachother we wave and say hi and stuff and continue on our ways. I was walking to work a bit later and he was sitting out front of a cafe I passed. He waved and said hello and I did the same, thinking how it was weird that that had just happened again. I walked into work thinking about my special powers when I looked up and saw a really fucking familiar face. Who gave me a kinda sheepish grin and half assed wave while I looked at him and thought ‘I know this guy. Where the fuck do I know this guy from’ and then he spoke. He said ‘Do you recognize me? I think we planted together this summer.’
And it all happened again. I had thought about this guy Adam, 2 days ago. He was working with the other crew that was in 100 Mile House this summer staying in the same motel as my crew. We spoke a few times on the porch. He’s making a movie about tree planting, about a guy named Franz Otto essentially but it’s more or less about the planting industry, and was always filming stuff. I remember there was a shit load of snow on the ground for a May morning and we wouldn’t be going to work that day. As a few of us stood in a circle bitching about it and smoking weed he hovered around us with the video camera capturing the moment. A few weeks later his crew took off and went to Vernon to plant there and I was pretty sure I’d never see the dude again. I was curious about his movie though and was thinking about it the other day. Then bang. I walk into work and he’s sitting there waving at me.
Turns out he was in Victoria with the dude who owns Brinkman Reforestation, getting some footage of him rocking the political side of things, leaving for my hometown PG on the 7 pm ferry that night. He left after an hour or so, said bye and that he’d send me an email when things for the film started taking off.
And so it goes. I keep finding that I know a lot of transient folk. I’m always seeing someone I know from somewhere else or meeting someone who knows people I know from somewhere else. I love it. It keeps things so interesting. And it’s comforting. Like there’s some big invisible thing that surrounds me and connects everyone I know. It’s a neat thought to think when I’m feeling a bit vulnerable and lonely in a new place.

Now. Enough of that. I’m sitting a MokSana Yoga. In Fan Tan Alley (one of my favorite places I’ve ever been). I scored a job here working for yoga basically. Every Tuesday I sit at this desk for 3 hours and listen to the fountain in the corner and read books. It’s pretty damn awesome I think.