In which I meet a lord of the forest and a flower fairy, all within 24 hours

You are going along following your trail through the woods (the dark woods of the middle of life) and then kabam! you go through a portal or something and what was just an ordinary sort of day struggling along to keep your head above water turns into a mythic encounter that leaves you bewondered for days and days. 
Yes, in an ordinary office building at a routine meeting I met a lord of the forest, in whose grey, calm eyes I saw the depthless, wild night and in whose gentle voice I sensed the wheel of life and death unfolding as we talked of ordinary things. 
Then, less than a day later, I was buying some coffee to fuel me through what would turn out to be a very treacherous day, when I asked the young  woman behind the counter if the roses for sale outside were hers and all of sudden she transformed from a sweet hippie-chick to something entirely more passionate, as she introduced me to her roses by name and parentage and I saw that her soul and those of the roses had intertwined. 

All you really need to know

And my new Zen koan:

Meow means woof in cat. - George Carlin