Google is sentient. and Buddhist.

I have all my favorite blogs on Google reader. It works well for me since I usually get a maximum of 2 minutes at the computer before someone comes up and needs my attention. I check in a few times a day and try to read all my favorites.

Yesterday, this one came up at Mama-Om. BTW, love her. The Mindfulness Bell reminded me of a great centering technique. She has taken ringing a bell and expanded it to a whole family interaction, with everyone helping each other stay balanced and connected. So beautiful.

I was so excited because the last few days have been pretty awful. My hormones are trying to kill me. Or maybe just restart my periods. One of those. And I have pretty much been insane. So getting what amounts to an instruction manual for sanity was like a gift from the gods.

I closed it and sat thinking about exactly how to implement this in my own home. I don't have a beautiful bell, just a high pitched chime. Hmmm. So I sat thinking, and I thought, "I should send this to my partner! She will be so jazzed! She will have some ideas on what we could use to be mindful!" I opened Google reader to send her a link, and couldn't find the post ANYWHERE. I was so confused? Where had it gone?

Then I noticed that I still had a direct link to the site open because I had posted a comment. I backed up a few pages to the original post and realised why it wasn't at the top of my reader. Check out the date. November 25, 2008. Which means Google KNEW I needed to read this and made it pop up even though it was more than 2 months old. Crazy, huh?

(What really gets me is that I haven't blogged since the hormonal crazies started, so how did Google know?)