Sometimes, things just seem right - almost as if they were meant to be. Asking why will not bring me closer to any reason, be it divine or otherwise, but rather than pondering the deeper meaning of coincidences, I'll just try and sum up what gave me the chills today.
So I'm sitting in the radio station at Utica College for my weekly show and being comfortable with the music set for the remainder of the show, I decided to relax and to finish Alex Haley's book, 'Roots,' which I found quite difficult to put down. On page 713, I read something that required a second look...
"I was asked to speak at a seminar at Utica College..." Haley wrote. He was attempting to research where exactly his great-great-great-great-grandfather came from and found some success in Upstate New York, very close to where I am now sitting. He also visited nearby Hamilton College, where he had a little more success.
Being Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Birthday,' I knew I had to say something over the airwaves before playing my next song by Queen, when I realized that the name of that band is the title to another of Haley's books. I meantioned these coincidences over the airwaves and not too long thereafter a caller informed me that not only did Haley give a seminar, but also the commencement address at UC around 1979, when the 'Roots' miniseries was being released.
I can't wait to look up his speech in our archives and read more about it in the local newspapers and in the school newspaper, 'The Tangerine.'
I have had a similar experience like this, which you can read about in this very blog. Look for the blog titled, 'Nutrocker' from 10 March, 2008 to see what I mean.
So I'm sitting in the radio station at Utica College for my weekly show and being comfortable with the music set for the remainder of the show, I decided to relax and to finish Alex Haley's book, 'Roots,' which I found quite difficult to put down. On page 713, I read something that required a second look...
"I was asked to speak at a seminar at Utica College..." Haley wrote. He was attempting to research where exactly his great-great-great-great-grandfather came from and found some success in Upstate New York, very close to where I am now sitting. He also visited nearby Hamilton College, where he had a little more success.
Being Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'Birthday,' I knew I had to say something over the airwaves before playing my next song by Queen, when I realized that the name of that band is the title to another of Haley's books. I meantioned these coincidences over the airwaves and not too long thereafter a caller informed me that not only did Haley give a seminar, but also the commencement address at UC around 1979, when the 'Roots' miniseries was being released.
I can't wait to look up his speech in our archives and read more about it in the local newspapers and in the school newspaper, 'The Tangerine.'
I have had a similar experience like this, which you can read about in this very blog. Look for the blog titled, 'Nutrocker' from 10 March, 2008 to see what I mean.
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