...is too important to be left to chance."— Robert Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
While checking my daily-read blogs yesterday morning, an odd coincidence took me by surprise. Wanda, who just lost her father this week, mentioned that she keeps getting "repeating or sequential number references several times a day" and felt lifted and encouraged by them during this difficult time.
That's interesting, I thought, because for the last several years of her life my mom kept talking about seeing "11:11" everywhere, every time she looked at the clock. "What does it mean?" she'd ask. It scared her, and she mentioned it often. For some reason I never felt compelled to look into 11:11 online (though if I'd I bothered I would have found 216 million google pages to sift through, as well as a wide variety of theories regarding its significance, some stranger than others). When my mom died I thought I had our answer - she died in the 11th hour of the day, in the 11th month of the year. Odd, yes, but case closed. I didn't even want to mention it here. And yet since then, if I happen to notice it's 11:11, I say a little hello to my mom, in an attempt to make the association a bit more positive — I refuse to be frightened by numbers on a clock.
Cut to yesterday morning, my mom's birthday, my blog reading. Wanda linked to an older post of hers when she mentioned the "sequential numbers" and of course I clicked. Post title? 11:11. Oh, of course! You can read the post and Wanda's wonderful words about living with myths, walking with faith, and looking out for signs and coincidence here.
20 comments:
thank you for sharing this...it is so interesting ...i will go to visit Wanda
um, the hair on the back of my neck just stood on end. 11:11.
i notice it ALL THE TIME.
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This may sound trivial, but a few years ago, our daughter's cousin taught us all to make a wish at 11:11. I do it when ever I catch it on the clock...which is a fairly regular occurrence.
I am glad you found this post helpful and I'd love to hear what myths you've decided to live by concerning this. Thanks for coming by my place and sharing your kind words. Oh, and happy birthday to your mom.
goosebumps here
it's interesting...for the longest time i'd notice 11:11 too, especially the first year after my daughter was born, when i was home and learning to be a different person. i took it as my good luck and 11 has become my favorite number. i always make a wish when i see the 11:11 sequence...
It is very interesting to see how many people have a connection with that sequence of numbers!...not here however...and I'm still waiting and hoping for some kind of sign from my sister...
This is very interesting and every thing in life there is a reason.
We just do not notice it..Thanks for sharing this.
Katelen
like Liza, we grew up making wishes on any same number time, like 3:33, 4:44 etc.
happy birthday to your mom
I have the same kind of thing only with 6's and 8's. They pop up everywhere and also 1's and 2's. A and K were born 12/12.
And, when you add up the numbers for the year (2009) it totals 11. Odd, huh? Great post.
weird, kind of comforting, though.
For some reason I seem to see 9:11 on clocks a lot.
thank you for sharing this intimate story. since about 8 years ago i see multiples of four -- on clocks, signs, and in completely random places, numerous times in a day. i'll blog about it at some point. but it does always feel comforting -- a bit of a mystery that someday might be revealed to me.
isn't that something!
i believe~ there is something beautiful there.
this is twice i have gotten goosebumps this week.
i love that.
xo
Thank you for sharing this. I, too, have a thing about numbers.
Wow, I had no idea so many people were having this experience with numbers! I'm glad I mentioned it!
Wait until I write about how I discovered Kirtan...
coincidence? synchronicity? how often do we feel deja vu? what appears random often repeats and we don't often take notice or think about much about it-- until it happens again.
Melanie, I was fascinated by this post and it jogged a memory of another and I found it at my friend Elizabeth's blog a while back...here's the link: http://elizabethbunsen.typepad.com/be_dream_play/2009/04/rainy-day-journal-pages.html
and it even speaks of a book that discusses the whole 11:11 thingy...how cool is that! smooches
Well since I posted this I noticed 11:11 twice - Friday night in the kitchen and last night (Saturday) driving the UHaul truck back to Northampton after picking up a load of stuff from my parent's house.
Leau, I checked out the link to Elizabeth's blog but the post was about a rainy day journal and not 11:11 and she has no search feature on her site so now I'm very curious...
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