Lattice of Coincidence

“Thank you for such a warm and hearty welcome. It cannot be a coincidence that I am here. The dots always unmistakably connect. My life journey and experiences have led me here, and I am grateful and humbled to have the access.…

“I do sincerely wish that your work, and particularly your voice, receives the full support that it deserves in order to awaken more people for their own protection. I am glad that your voice is part of a growing Chorus that refuse to remain or fall silent in the wake of unprecedented covert Malevolent spiritual carnage.”
—“From a reader in Harare, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼” [email I received]

There are certain synchronistic pinpoints of connection that wind up having a cascade effect destined to alter the course of our lives.

One such moment occurred for me when I was applying for a job as an editor early in my career. I’d already spent my first year out of college in a similar position, but it was in a soul-putrefying urban landscape my husband and I felt desperate to flee, and this new position in a bucolic town surrounded by natural beauty represented our escape hatch.

I had emailed several of my professors about writing letters of recommendation, and one of them (now sadly departed) just happened to be visiting the town where I was to be interviewed that afternoon. Instead of emailing a letter, he delivered an enthusiastic in-person recommendation a few hours before my arrival.

The interview felt like reconnecting with old friends. We instantly bonded over our shared passions for literature, typography, and exquisitely designed publications. I floated out of there sensing this was going to be my new workplace, and the phone call the next morning confirmed it. I probably would have gotten the job regardless as it was like sliding my foot into a Cinderella slipper, but given that there were more than fifty other candidates, my mentor’s personal introduction certainly didn’t hurt and remains with me as a testament to his friendship.

I recounted another example of a serendipitous connection in the introduction to my first guest piece, A New Journal of the Plague Year Three Centuries Later: The Pandemic, the Commercial Break, & the Lost Identity by Fernando Andacht, who meditates on my Letter to a Covidian. That meeting of our essays blossomed into beautiful exchanges with Fernando and his fellow Uruguayan eXtramuros Magazine writers, who have translated several of my essays into Spanish.

In my one-year anniversary post, I credited Mises Institute Board member Steve Berger with introducing me to individuals who have not only become some of my dearest friends but who have played an integral role in my journey as a dissident writer—including Lew Rockwell, faithful publisher of my work; Founder and President of Health Freedom Defense Fund Leslie Manookian, whose recommendation led to my Corona Investigative Committee presentation; and No College Mandates Cofounder Lucia Sinatra, whom I shared an inspiring note from in my last piece.

Humble, magnanimous, and kind, Steve is like the hub of a wheel connecting disparate spokes who otherwise may not have met, and together we are stronger for it.

Another such cascading connection occurred when my fairy tale got picked up by OffGuardian, and I encountered tweets by Crow Qu’appelle of Nevermore MediaPaul Cudenec of Winter Oak PressIain Davis of In This Together, and Cory Morningstar of @elleprovocateur, among others.

I liked Crow’s tweet so much, I contacted him about using it on the cover of the book version. And that was the moment, the pinpoint connection, that was to branch into a friendship and lead to my becoming a contributor at Nevermore Media along with PaulIainJordan HendersonThe StirrerDerrick BrozeJohn DuffyJames CorbettWhitney WebbRozali TelbisNowick Gray, and Lee SimpsonTessa LenaMark Crispin MillerFernando Andacht, and Cory Morningstar also joined at my invitation.

“An anarchist journal of heresy and thoughtcrime,” Nevermore Media is a trilingual (EnglishSpanish, and Frenchmultimedia project whose aim is to revitalize the anarchist tradition and “bring together anarchists opposed to the medical-industrial-complex and the biosecurity state, that is to say, real anarchists.”

Canadian exile living in Mexico, Crow1 writes:

“The time has come to rise up against the tyranny of the biosecurity state, to declare that we will never again submit to tyrannical measures such as curfews, lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine passports.

“The time has come to say NEVERMORE!”

So am I an anarchist? I don’t know. Maybe. Following are my meditations on my values and political journey.

In Praise of Dangerous Freedom

Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem [I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery].… It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs. I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787

“In a constellation that poses the threat of total annihilation through war against the hope for the emancipation of all mankind through revolution—leading one people after the other in swift succession ‘to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them’—no cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.”
—Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (Kindlepaperbackaudiobook)

I possess a virulent anti-authoritarian strain dating back to my childhood (ask my father), and I have always found the concept of respecting authority for authority’s sake nonsensical. Respect is something you earn, not deserve. This gives me a natural affinity for anarchism.

Here commences the soundtrack for this post, which draws primarily from Repo Man, a zany anthem to the anarchist-influenced punk movement.

I don’t do labels, so I don’t call myself an anarchist, but I find we are aligned on the values I feel matter the most.2

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