Knee Deep in the Hooah!

Remember a while back when I wrote an entry called “finite familiarity?” I wrote about the incredible connections that have been made for us through this blog and through the process of Bryan’s joining the military when he did.

Today there are even more connections, and one that I did not mention in my first post.

This past week I found out that two of my friends (one I met through Bryan’s joining and the other through this blog) are now neighbors. It was unplanned, and amazing that they wound up in the same neighborhood and found each other. Serendipity abounds. It was a very incredible connection, and I was shocked when I got the call — shocked, surprised, but then not stumped.

The other connection I did not mention in the last entry is the fact that we are distant relatives with a certain, wonderful blogger and commenter. I’ll let her be the decision maker as to whether or not she wants to own us publicly as her own. We are not sure yet what the familial connection is, but we know it’s there. My mother in law does genealogy and was able to establish that there is a connection for sure. Technically this person is related to Mr. Hooah! through kinship and me through marriage. It’s not too shocking since the two of them think alike.

I do have to admit that more than once I would have swore that Piper is Mr. Hooah!’s long, lost sister. There have been times where I had to look twice at the name on her comments, because it echoes almost exactly what he has, or would have, said.

The pieces of this small puzzle, that seems so hugely beyond us, come together without the manipulation of our hands. It’s good that the hands that do the fitting can see the larger picture.

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