Living the Dream: A Coincidence Diary

 On the evening of March 13th 2024, Raymond Keene sent to me (and also independently, to my wife) this (quite unsolicited) poem in an e mail  The Relic BY JOHN DONNE When my grave is broke up again        Some second guest to entertain,        (For graves have learn'd that woman head,        To be to more than one a bed)                 And he that digs it, spies A bracelet of  bright hair  about the bone,                 Will he not let'us alone, And think that there a loving couple lies, Who thought that this device might be some way To make their souls, at the last busy day, Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?          If this fall in a time, or land,          Where mis-devotion doth command,          Then he, that digs us up, will bring          Us to the bishop, and the king,                 To make us relics; then Thou shalt be a Mary Magdalen, and I                 A something else thereby; All women shall adore us, and some men; And since at such time miracles a

On October 19th 2023 at 19:38 I was proof-reading and, to some extent, expanding my book  Bread and the Circus .  Bread and the Circus eBook : Plaskett, James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store    It is about my own involvements with the TV show  Who Wants to be a Millionaire?   I also had this playing in the background on Youtube -  Surgeon Struck by Lightning : Discovers the God Energy (Near-Death Experience) - YouTube Surgeon Struck by Lightning : Discovers the God Energy (Near-Death Exper...    Although I had a Yamaha keyboard, I rarely used it. But I had been experiencing the most compelling desire to make music, and found myself thinking very seriously about mastering piano to a high level. And, even perhaps the very next day, buying and installing a proper piano. Pedals and all! My wife had, thirty years before, taught me how to trace out a few Beatles tunes. But only with the right hand. Well, I had the thing on Youtube playing because it was about a near death experience. I had no id