Johnny Smith: Okay, one of my visions was a little off.
Bruce Lewis: ‘A little off’. Do you understand what it means in the context of the rest of humanity for your brain to be ‘a little off’? That puts you in another galaxy far, far away.
Dead Zone

I love the show Dead Zone with Anthony Michael Hall on USA. If you haven’t seen the show, it’s based off the book by Steven King which tells the story of Johnny Smith, a man who was in a coma and wakes up to discover he can sometimes see the past or future by touching people or objects. Sometimes, it’s obvious what he sees, other times its hard to tell what to do.

This past Sunday, he picked up a postcard and got a flash for a friend of his being killed. He calls her and tells her not to go to the town where the postcard is from and then proceeds there himself to see what’s up. She of course, ignores him and also goes because it’s her birthday and she doesn’t want to be alone, setting herself up for the very tragedy he saw in his vision. During the show, Johnny meets a lady who runs the local diner (which has a big pink spoon over it and was featured on the post card) who begins explaining that running away from his troubles (which is why he is in this little town) is not a good idea because she once got pregnant and gave the child up to provide a better life and has been running from it ever since and she regrets it.

So, our hero Johnny and his lady friend (who is also a bit psychic) go off and catch the bad guys, after having gotten caught by them, and save the day. As they are sitting dow for pie, our hero begins wondering why he saw his friend when he touched the postcard of the big pink spoon since that actually brought her into danger. He figures he must have seen her for some other reason. Come to find out that the cards are made by the lady who runs the diner and of course it follows that she is the friends mom. The girl had always had a vision of a pink spoon on her birthday and didn’t know why. (She thought it was just a sign she should eat ice cream.)
All in all, a nice little closing and the adoptee wasn’t the criminal or psycho in the end so that was cool, she was psychic though. I had a thought for an episode where an adoptee asks Johnny to track down his mom and he decides to do it because he sees a great catastrophe if he doesn’t. Winds up, by finding her, the adoptee is able to provide a much needed kidney to her. Not sure where I got the idea.

It’s funny how adoption keeps cropping up. Even though I haven’t been reading much online recently it stills sneaks up on you. For example, while working on a computer at work, I came across an email from another employee that was asking if anyone who knows of a mother or perspective mother who may be thinking of giving up her child to open adoption because they have a friend who is looking. My first reaction was anger but then I realised that it was an opportunity. I wrote a brief email to the employee and included the recommendations for adoptive parents. I also offered to talk to them or share some of my books with them. He thanked me but said little else. Hopefully they will review it and take something away from it. Hopefully they will have a truly open adoption and everything will be okay in the world. Maybe they will call.

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