The Book Pages: The case of the screeching parrots

I enjoy coincidencesPossibly my favorite was at a family reunion in Colorado. I was on a couch reading Philip Glass’s memoir, “Words Without Music,” next to my wife’s aunt when Glass mentioned a brief visit 50 years prior from an artist friend and the artist’s unnamed spouse. My wife’s aunt had been married to someone with that name, and I leaned over and asked, Hey, is this you?

So, that’s a high bar – sitting next to a person who is randomly mentioned in a book you grabbed on impulse to read on vacation – but I had another fun one a few months back. In one of her a-ha moments, the detective DeWitt zooms in on a photo of the missing man’s tie to view its pattern: It’s green dots, no –This deduction seems, in the context of the story, bonkers – what does it matter what the tie looks like? — but the moment was even more striking because just as audiobook narrator Carol Monda said “green parrots” an eruption of birds launched out the tree above my head.This is just the kind of “clue” detective DeWitt would love. I know I did.

Since we live in a “pics or it didn’t happen” world, I took a few pictures of The Parrots Who Definitely Did Not Make Me Jump Like a Scared Little Baby, but you’re free to just think I’m bonkers if you want.

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