“We played a renaissance fair in Oklahoma City just so we could be here for the total eclipse.” – E.J. Jones, Piper Jones Band
Total Serendipity
Jeff
and Kristi Durrant had planned for it; for more just about seven years. NASA educators had planned to come to teach about it, since attending the last total North American total eclipse in Idaho a couple of years before. And, the Piper Jones Band, well, they’d been planning their performance and travel schedule around the total eclipse happening on the 8th of April 2024 as well. Perhaps I was the only one who hadn’t made any plans at all, until Jeff and Kristi Durrant called?
Jeff and Kristi contacted me, about six months before the cosmic event, with an invitation to be part of something magical. And since we’ve traveled together quite a few times my “of course” came quickly and without reservation. After all, they’re the great travel planners. It was an easy yes, because I knew it would permit me to simply coast to the date,
without a care. They’d make all the arrangements. I counted on it.
What I had not counted on was the addition of enchanted serendipity, that wouldn’t and couldn’t be manifest until the day, and at almost the very cosmic time of eclipse. Even then, it took a little exploration in and around Dover, Arkansas to bring fortunate people together.
We arrived in Dover at about midday on the date of total eclipse. Sure, our almost three-and-a-half-hour drive to the exact spot of Jeff’s choosing had allowed us to pass thousands of people, pulled to the side of the road, in the rolling Ozark Mountains. But, Jeff just kept promising something more. That more meant more time of total sun suppression. A
little over four minutes of natural wonder. So, we kept going until we got right in Dover and searched for the best spot to watch.
The search led us to discover a large, specialty telescope with four people attending it, in front of the grassy public library front yard. And, we pulled in at about the same time as the soon to be met Piper Jones Band. It
was a moment of unanticipated, total serendipity.
I say total because the friendly people setting up the telescope turned out to be Calvin and Vanity, NASA Educators who had come from Davis, California to teach the public about the total eclipse event. And, the Piper Jones Band had just arrived from Oklahoma City, after playing in a renaissance fair
there. Dover was on their path home to North Carolina. Our groups didn’t know each other. It didn’t matter.
What mattered was being together. Calvin and Vanity taught us. The Piper Jones Band played, while wearing their eclipse glasses. We shared music, comradery, and food. We shared a cosmic event.
It could have been a natural phenomenon alone. That would have been okay. But, it was a universe beyond that.
It was stranger, total serendipity.
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