Yesterday I received this e-mail from my friend Abby:
“I’m sitting at McNally-Robinson yesterday after work. It’s a beautiful bookstore in Soho, with a really stellar collection of all the books I’ve ever wanted to read (and let’s be honest, the sort of place I’d love to see one of my books on display one day). I’m sitting in the cafe section with one of my best friends, Kate, who is visiting from Montreal, and we are updating each other on all the happenings in our lives. I’m going on and on about this one particular man who has managed to insert himself back in my life. This man (who I told Michael the then-latest happenings on on Sunday) has been in my life for 8 years and still doesn’t know what he wants. Needless to say, it’s exhausting and depressing and I’m getting ridiculously close to my breaking point–which is the point at which he panics and shows up again.
Anyway, this is not the point of my story. The point of my story is that I am going on about this man, and Kate is doing a good job of calming me down and advising me. Then Kate’s phone rings and she starts to talk on it, and a woman sitting next to us says, “I’m so sorry, but I’ve been eavesdropping on your conversation, and I just want to say I just went through the same thing with someone, and it took 3 years for it all to end.” I do the polite thing of acknowledging her without getting involved, until she says, “I found this amazing song that’s really helped me through it.” I’m like, oh, God, this woman is crazy and is going to hand me some weird thing I would never listen to. She says, “It’s this song calmed ‘Take Your Time’ that I just discovered and it has really helped me and that I’ve really connected to.” So, not thinking anything, I say, “Oh really? By who?” She says, “Her name is Jamie Leonhart.”
I just start smiling, and tell her I know you, and I love that song, too, and ask how she knows of it–like, does she know you? And she says, no, that she gets Joe’s Pub’s emails and usually ignores them, but had, for some reason, listened to the one with your music on it and had really connected to it.”
Wow, huh?
now that is awesome and crazy