Signs, Signs

Remember that old song?  Sign, Sign, everywhere a sign, blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind. Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign? by Five Man Electrical Band. 

But do you ever have things "presented" to you, and you see it as a sign?  It's one of those things you have to watch for, pay attention, keep in your present mind.  And when a sign comes, its screams "pay attention".  Sometimes I do, and sometimes I think I know better and don't.   Maybe it's not a literal sign like a billboard, but its a sign, just the same.   Let me tell you about this one:

I've been friends with a man for eight years now.  We talk every day, he's my best friend, understands me (well, as much as he can understand a woman, mind you!) and I understand him (again, as best I can, as men are elusive creatures!).  It's enough to say that we're close.   Last week on Amazon, I found a book I've been looking for listed in Large Print, hard cover.  I first read "Forever and the Night" way back in the 90's, and have remembered the characters all this time.  Uttering the phrase "just do it", I ordered the book; it shipped from somewhere back east and arrived on Friday.  I spent yesterday and today reading the book, enjoying every minute of being immersed in the story line... but I digress.  I finished the book not 15 minutes ago, and turned the last page.  And there I discovered the original library stamp:   

Flathead County Library, Kalispell, MT

This significance, and the sign?  It's where my best friend lived, and spent many hours in this library.  What are the odds that I order a book from the conglomerate Amazon and get a book from his own library?  I am certain he's never read this particular book, it being of a romance nature.  But still, the odds are pretty fantastic that it would happen this way, don't you think? 

In my current state of mind, I find this totally significant -- 

and did you ever notice how the word significant starts with the word sign  ???

Another example of the synchronicity that encompasses our lives if we watch for the signs.