I was substitute teaching in a fifth grade classroom on November 22, 2013. It was exactly fifty years ago on that day when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. How are the two events even remotely related? Read on…
During the course of the school day, a student approached me with a penny, saying he had found it on the floor. I thank him for turning it in, without really thinking much at the time about it. A bit later in the day, I examined the penny, seeing that it obviously was a bit older than most. And what, to my surprise, did I find out?
The penny was dated 1963…the year that JFK was assassinated. And it was fifty years to the day that a penny bearing that date was found in a classroom and turned in by an industrious student. Several questions ruminated in my mind over the next while: What are the chances most eleven year-old children would bother to pick a penny up, much less turn it in? What are the chances the date it was found and turned in would be such an historic date in our country’s history? And perhaps most-importantly, doesn’t this seem to indicate that events far removed and brought to awareness are signs of connections we may never totally understand?
Synchronicity at its finest in my book…
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David Lee 