San Francisco
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"San Francisco"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s
I became particularly "interested in" - got enamoured with - this song immediately after its singer, Scott McKenzie died.
I posted on YOUTUBE:
"... for days I can´t ´get off´ this song. I just listen to and sing it hundreds and hundreds times, as the ´Song of Eternity ´ - a message from long gone times that still live on forever..."
I got some positive responses, but - for whatever reasons - my comment (these two sentences ) disappeared from YOUTUBE.
I wrote it again and let it appear as my "motto" on my personal YOUTUBE-file. Whoever opened this file could see it immediately up on the right side.
Recently I reopened this file and saw that - as a consequence of some YOUTUBE restructuring - this comment (statement?) disappeared even from here. After long search I found it tough, hidden in a box (or whatever the name for this ) under one of the so many new headings. I copied it and put among my email drafts (yahoo) with the intention to "republish" it again as a comment to "Scott McKenzie´s "San Francisco " (Whenever I feel in the right mood to it. )
I usually write my emails from a library and this library "does not support yahoo services" ; it is probably for this reason that this text got written with smallest letters and it turned out to be impossible to alter them to a larger size.
It was yesterday when I went to another library when I could alter these letters to large ones. It was a real pleasure to my eyes to see the huge letters :
"SAN FRANCISCO
...... THE ´SONG OF ETERNITY´ - A MESSAGE FROM LONG GONE TIMES THAT STILL LIVE ON FOREVER..."
At night I had different dreams. One of them was about the personal+ at one airport, monitoring, directing, instructing the landing and taking off of large air-planes. How complicated their job was, how difficult for them to keep up being intensively attentive...
The very first news I heard early this morning was this:
Boeing 777 crashes while landing at San Francisco airport - U.S. ...
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Surely, this is not (at all) my cutest coincidence-story, but this is the newest one...
Berlin, 7th July, 2013
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P.S
It is also weard to see YOUTUBE, if you write in the words "San Francisco"). You
will see first the song, then several Videos about the plain Crash... (At least it is so now,
11. 17 Berlin Time )
Date submitted:Mon, 08 Jul 2013 10:20:54 +0000Coincidence ID:7131