Patio | Pateros, WA | 2013
Lives overlay and intersect to create complex patterns and connections. While dining on the patio of a local restaurant, we discover that the couple next to us (total strangers) is leaving in an hour (same as us) on the 90-mile drive to Twisp (also our destination) to stay in a B&B just down the road from our cabin. They’ll have dinner with the Petersons (whom we’ve known for 35 years) and attend a play (directed by my spouse) featuring a Seattle actress that we all know through a mutual friend — a builder — who remodeled both our houses. We marvel and exclaim over the mix of friendships that brought us to this very specific point in time and place. We exchange email addresses but never make contact. That’s because two weeks later we’re again entangled with strangers in the social web of coincidence — paths crisscrossing, relationships meshing — and again marveling and exclaiming. At least until it happens again, and again, and …
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