The spookiest-cool thing happened to me on the day

you posted Bishop's "One Art." As you know I was shaken out of my ordinary hour when I read the poem in your post, but I also had a strong remembrance of a few lines, so I wondered if I'd read this poem before or if I had come across a similiar subject in another poem. Anyroo, very late that evening, I was looking for a hand-drawn map of ancient China my dad had made for me in my big ol' basket for "Can't-find-a-place-to-save-this" items. And guess what?! The first sheet of paper out of hundreds of scraps I pulled out was "One Art" by Bishop. I have not come across the first print out of the poem for some eons. Not since I put it away in the basket. And when I went back to my room, I picked up a magazine and the first line I read was something like: "Forgetting is all about remembering . . ." or some such phrase. I was too rattled to read on and dropped the magazine like the proverbial hot potato. Now, that's spooky-cool.

You always bring me the best questions

How'd you know I've been thinking about posting something about my two names?! I'm going to blog about name and name change.

Xuan is pronounced Shhwen. X is a soft shh in Chinese usage. My parents never call me Belle except when with non-Chinese friends. Belle is very hard for them to pronounce. It does not roll trippingly on the Chinese tongue.

They got Belle when the school in SF would not accept Xuan. So my folks went down a list of names in a phrase book. Belle was one syllable and merely 3 different letters of the alphabet. Easy for a girl who didn't know English.

I'm going to post something within the week about this topic of name change. Since I am so forget-ful, I hope I'll remember the kernels of "truths."

Oh, and more importantly, what's the lesson for the synchronicity of events? I must be less grasping and greedy or there will be no tranquility for Miss Belle. And I have to think about this question some more!