6338817005_0eea5ca558_zImage from Flickr via  We have followed
Jennifer Cheyne through her years of discovery at Berkeley—she
entered the university at 49, with the dream of someday studying
at the Sorbonne. She is poised to fulfill that dream—she moves
to Paris next month. Is this her presaged moment?   “Perhaps
this very instant is your time—pretty late—but still your own,
your peculiar, your promised and presaged moment, out of all
moments forever.” ~ Louise Bogan   Has this ever happened to
you?  It seems that every time you look at the clock, it’s 11:11
or 1:11, or even 4:44.  If it happens often enough, you start to
think the universe is trying to get your attention.  For me,
this was becoming so common, for a while there, that I was
getting annoyed.  I’d mutter to the cosmos, “If you have
something you want me to know, just say it!”  Last month, I was
driving on Highway 13, here in Berkeley, and I mused about how
that was a terrific number for me, despite the bad-luck
connotations. It was my birthdate,