Spiritual Signs

One afternoon I couldn’t stop thinking about an old friend I’d drifted away from. No reason. She just kept surfacing in my head. That evening she emailed me out of the blue, first time in three years. You’ve probably had one of those. A coincidence lands with a strange weight and you think, that meant…

The week after my grandmother’s funeral, a single white feather turned up on my doormat three days running. I’m not going to tell you what it was. I’ll tell you it made me cry, and then, for a moment, it made me feel less alone. After a loss, or in a rough stretch of life,…

I bought a little pendant on a trip once, just because the spiral on it caught my eye. No deep reason. Months later I learned how old that shape is, and how many cultures landed on it to mean growth, the slow journey inward. That stuck with me. A symbol holds a whole idea in…

For about a year I kept having the same dream. Back at my old school, late for an exam in a subject I’d never studied. I’d wake up tense every time. When I finally paid attention to it instead of shrugging it off, I noticed it always came during weeks when I felt unprepared and…

On the morning of a job interview that terrified me, a hawk landed on a lamppost right outside my window and just sat there, watching, for what felt like ages. I’m not going to claim it was sent. I’ll say it made me stand a little taller and remember to keep the bigger picture in…