When someone shares a song with you, you naturally think about them when it comes on. Last Saturday this happened, and I sent that person good thoughts. It’d been months since we’d last chatted.

Two days ago, out of the blue- he told me his sailboat had flipped over from 40 mph winds and he was stranded in the middle of Flathead Lake, Montana. The story made the local news. For 11 hours throughout the night, he balanced precariously on top of his boat. It was, essentially his ‘dark night of the soul’. The search and rescue teams reached him the following morning. He survived mentally and physically by staying present with his thoughts, grounding himself somatically, and harnessing breathwork to stay rooted.

“What night did this happen?” I asked.

“Saturday,” he said.

The same day I’d heard the song and sent him good thoughts.

The song? “Anchor” by Novo Amor.

The world is big and the universe is vast, but moments like this remind me that we're all interconnected and intertwined.