Sunday Scribblings #106 – Oracle

I must admit, until just now, I had no clue what the word “oracle” meant. I mean, sure, when I first read the word, I thought about fortune tellers and Ouija boards, but really had no clear concept about the word’s meaning.

In other words, I read the prompt for Sunday Scribblings this week and thought, “ok, not so smart over here. Don’t even know what the word oracle even means, so how can I write about it!”

Enter Wikipedia and Google Images (how did I ever do research before these life altering tools arrived and implanted themselves in my MacBook?).

Wikipedia says:
An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. It may also be a revealed prediction or precognition of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form  .

The highlighted part had me going “WOW, Really?”

Prediction of the future. Huh.

This is all so bizarre. This topic this definition and this beautiful image.

Why?

Well, on 3 separate occasions this past week, I have had these weird experiences where just that has happened. I think of something, and then it happens.

This has never happened before.

On Wednesday morning, I was in the shower. For no reason at all, a memory popped into my mind of  an occasion where, at the last minute,  I was asked to co-teach Nia with my Nia teacher Martha Randall . When I opened my email over breakfast, Martha’s message asking me to co-teach that morning was a the top of my inbox.

On Wednesday evening, I was at a Twitter workshop (hosted by the amazingly knowledgeable  Jaime Almond and Rachel Foster ). Before the workshop started,  I was looking at my MacBook screen and thinking about a few things that I needed to follow up on after the workshop.  My mind led me to a gentlemen by the name of Marcus Schwartz who had interviewed me about my Nia fitness business at a Nia event back in June. At the time, we discussed using the interview for a podcast.  His card had been sitting on my desk for months, and I was aware of the need to touch base with him.
The seminar began, and introductions started. I turned to look over my left shoulder, and there was Marcus Schwartz, sitting just a few rows ahead of me.

On Thursday afternoon, I was driving home from seeing a client. I was listening to 102.1 The Edge on the radio as usual. One song ended, and in the 2 seconds of silence that followed, I began to hear the first 3 notes of a song. Those same 3 notes followed on the radio. You guessed it, I had heard the next song in my mind.

Explanation? 
Probably best left to the mystery of it all…..