Funny how things happen when you're asleep, or looking the other way, or doing chores in another part of the house. And the radio comes on at wake-up time in the morning, or your partner channel-surfs through the news while you get supper together, and a headline comes and goes, fast as a kingfisher diving, and your whole life is become new and familiar, all at once.
UPDATE: very funny column in the SF Chronicle.