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Re: [OM] Twilight Zone Moment (OT)

Subject: Re: [OM] Twilight Zone Moment (OT)
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:47:54 -0400
Insert sounds from the Twilight Zone here.

Chuck Norcutt (sitting next door to Rod Serling's home town)


On 9/21/2010 6:29 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> So, I'm checking out a customer at one of the shops that features my
> photography. There is a tall, slender, 40-ish woman standing in the
> background, making eye contact with me every chance she gets. She is
> not unattractive, and I'm entering my pre-stutter phase, which is
> held at bay only by the customers I'm dealing with.
>
> They depart. The woman steps to the counter and asks me if I'm Bob
> Whitmire. I allow as how I am. She smiles warmly, exceedingly warmly,
> and, extending her hand, says that she's been anxious to meet me. I
> make the appropriate noise, but don't actually say anything for fear
> of tongue tangling. Alas, she was not a groupie seeking contact with
> a minor regional photographer.
>
> She said that several years ago, she had an exceptionally vivid dream
> that awakened her in the middle of the night and drove her to make a
> drawing, a skill, she says, she does not possess in any appreciable
> measure. She then went on to say that a year later, she was in the
> shop, flipping through a rack of my photos, when she came across one
> that matched her dream, and her drawing, _exactly_. She bought it,
> took it home, and has it framed in her living room where it reminds
> her of one of those moments some folks have from time to time when
> some sort of connection happens that cannot be explained by
> Newtonian/Cartesian views of the universe.
>
> I asked her a number of questions, and discovered that she had not
> seen that or any of my photos, nor had she ever heard of me. She had
> never been in the shop or any other place in Maine that carried my
> work, and had not been on or near my web site, nor had she ever been
> looking over he shoulder of anyone who had. Neither had she ever been
> to  the out of the way town where the photo was taken.
>
> The image came to her in a dream, was vivid enough for her to attempt
> to draw it, and a year later she found an exact match, right down to
> all the telephone wires, in a shop on the Midcoast of Maine.
>
> This is the intro page on my site for the Winter gallery. It is the
> image she saw in her dream.
>
> http://www.bobwhitmire.com/page13/page13.html
>
> Her name was Joy.
>
>
> --Bob Whitmire "Art is spooky" www.bobwhitmire.com
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