Bob Schwartz

On May 4 I published a post about the National Guard shootings at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.

Later that day, on May 4, I was tidying up a large media cabinet, looking for extra space. The cabinet contains CDs, DVDs, books, and an assortment of other items. I found a small pile of stuff taking up space, a pile I hadn’t looked at in years. I pulled out the pile and unstacked it. There between the CDs was a little brochure.

It was a brochure from a long-ago visit to the May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University (see above).

I can’t explain it. Actually, I can come up with different explanations, none of which I can be certain of. While I haven’t calculated the odds of this happening by chance, they are astronomical. But things happen by chance. On the other hand, forces are at work that we can’t fully know, no matter how smart we claim to be. As Hamlet said, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophie [science].”

There is magic in the universe. Believing in it makes us bigger and better.