Sunday, September 14, 2014

Synchronicity!

The weirdest thing happened with the road photo I posted in my last blog post! First of all, I added a small sliver of text from a Mary Oliver poem, "Today". See the poem below.

Here are the pictures I did....


I can't decide which one I like best, the faded text or the darker text. But all of that is not important to the story I am trying to tell.

On Facebook, I accidentally posted the photo with the faded text in the comments section of a friend's post, on her page! The photo didn't show up on my page and I had no idea what had happened until I got a noticed that someone I do not know had "liked" my photo (in my defense, I was doing all this on my phone, which can be tricky)! I figured out what happened when I clicked on the notice and was taken back to my friend's page.

To my surprise, the person had posted a comment about this being a road from her dream 30 or so years ago!

I told her I had not intended to post it there, told her the road was in Kisatchie Forest, and hashtagged it as #oldladytechissues! She wrote back to say thank you for my old lady tech issues! I mentioned how Jung would have said it was a case of synchronicity and she agreed and said it meant a lot to her. 

Is that not the weirdest, most delightful thing??!! 

Here is the complete poem:

Today

Today I'm flying low and I'm
not saying a word.
I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. 

The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.

But I'm taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I'm traveling
a terrific distance.

Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple. 

~Mary Oliver




10 comments:

  1. thank you for the synchronicity reminder.

    and the poem.

    <3

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  2. I love that you reference Jung with a southern accent.

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  3. Love the picture and the poem and Jung and the rogue post story!

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    1. Thank you, for calling my attention to the poem!

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    1. I'm glad you love it! I sent the woman a PM offering her a copy of the photo, but since I am not her friend, it will go into her "other" mail and I don't know if she will see it.

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  5. Is it Deeprak Chopra who writes about how synchronicities are our modern miracles? Or something along those lines? Anyway. I love this and I am a huge fan of life's synchronicities.

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    1. I don't know, Rach, but I too am a fan of life's synchronicities!

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