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March 07, 2006
Small Word, Part CCXVI
Such a small world, eh? Here's a photo of Joseph and Michael playing in the gravel in front of the Basilica of Constantine and/or Maxentius at the Forum:
It had taken us a few minutes to figure out what the structure was, for it really wasn't clear in any of our guidebooks. A family wandered up to us and asked, evidently having heard us puzzle it out in English, if we knew what it was. We told them, then asked the obligatory, "Where are you from?"
"Cincinnati."
"Oh, we flew in and out of Cincinatti. We're actually from Fort Wayne."
Beat. Almost a stunned beat. The father of the group says, "I'm speaking in Fort Wayne next Tuesday."
Yup...small, small world.
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If there is a better, or sweeter, illustration of "the meek shall inherit the earth", I've not seen it!
Posted by: SouthCoast at Mar 7, 2006 1:20:57 PM
They say all roads lead to Fort Wayne . . .
Posted by: John P Sheridan at Mar 8, 2006 9:35:38 PM
In 1993, when I was a college senior, a class I was in traveled to Rome. One day I was in Mary Major (I think), looking at Michelangelo's 'Moses,' when someone came up from behind me and said, 'Hello Sean.'
I turned around and it was a theater professor whom I had worked closely wiht as a freshman. At the end of my freshman year, he and his wife left our central Indiana campus for the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Yeah.
I hadn't heard a word from him or about him after that until that day in Rome.
A small world? Or a mysteriously providential one?
Posted by: Sean Gallagher (a.k.a., Bruce Dickinson) at Mar 9, 2006 10:23:50 PM
