Near Synchronicity

Yesterday during the power outage here in St. Louis, I thought of a childhood acquaintance who decades ago had a summer job reading meters for Carolina Power & Light in Wilmington, NC. I hadn't thought of David Huffine in ages. The last time I saw him might have been twenty years ago when I held a temporary teaching position at UNC-W.

Also yesterday Kerry named John Edwards to fill the VP slot on the democratic presidential ticket. This article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch includes a quote by David on Edwards' law school days at Chapel Hill.

The near syncrhonicity of these two events--the memory evoked by the aftermath of a violent thunderstorm and the quote related to what could be a momentous election--could be fodder for a story, perhaps a flash fiction piece, even a poem.