This week began NYCxDesign and also the International Contemporary Furniture Fair of ICFF as it is known. It's always a wonderful time of the year when it begins to be spring in full force and all the art and design community in New York City celebrates together along with people coming from all over the world.
I'll be writing more about individual showrooms and design houses and Designers and Artists and Artisans, but for now I wanted to share something that was such a very special personal moment that connected the dots of my life and made me take a moment to thank God once again for showing up and showing off, and for giving me the knowledge that though I may not understand anything that is happening sometimes, there is a plan that is much bigger than I am and if I can just keep walking in faith I'll see the picture come together in ways that are miraculous and beautiful and filled with joyful fun.
While at the SoHo design showroom celebrations on Saturday, I saw a woman who I've known for a few years now. I had met her in 2019 or so, and we see each other on occasion but it had been a while since we'd had a chance to talk. While we were sharing information about what we'd both been up to, she saw some friends of hers who I recognized also, and when she introduced us we all thought we must know each other but weren't quite sure how or when we'd met before.
We all left the showroom where we were at different times and met up again at another showroom in the same area. While we talked, one of the people the woman I knew had introduced me to asked me if I'd ever lived in a particular area of Manhattan which I had, and when I said yes and specified where, he said said with excitement and fun in his voice that it was when I was living there that we met. Right before that we had been talking about sailing, and it was the combination of the fact that we both loved sailing and that when he had arrived at the showroom where we now were and had given the names of the reservations for himself and his partner, it turned out that his partner's last name is the same as mine which is something that is really quite rare. There are people who have similar names, but they are usually spelled differently, and so that in itself was extraordinary. The combination of that and sailing helped him put the pieces of the puzzle together and remember when and where we met nearly 20 years ago.
It's at times like that when I just have to take a moment and say wow, God, and without understanding what the meaning or rhyme or reason is, to just have fun with the knowledge that something or someone I'd known before has reappeared now. I've written before about the fact that I love Charles Dickens novels and that God has a way of showing up by doing things that remind me of the way a Charles Dickens novel unfolds, and this moment was one of the moments that a person showed up again who I'd know many years ago, and though I don't know what the purpose is in the greater plot line, I can enjoy the fact of it in the here and now and be grateful for the goodness of God who always shows me that, even though I may not understand it, there is a design to my life that goes above and beyond my understanding and that will bring everything together beautifully.
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