When I was trying to follow The Artist's Way a couple of years ago, one of the things Julia Cameron talked about was synchronicity, which I remember as being essentially coincidences. If I could find the book, I would write a better definition. Anyway, I have had 3 synchronistic events lately that were hard to miss:
1. A couple of weeks ago, I rode on the Don Valley Parkway in the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Ride for Heart. And it was the worst day (well, if it had been snowing it would have been worse, or a lightening storm perhaps). Anyway, it was rainy and cold. But as I rode up to York Mills, I thought, this isn't so bad. It is wet but I'm warm enough from the climb up. No big deal, I thought. Until I went back down the hills to Exhibition. And my feet got soaked. So soaked, my shoes made squishing sounds on the downstroke. It seems that going downhill through puddles kicks up a lot of water. Then I felt cold. Really, really cold. About 5 km away from the end, I started singing in my head some lyrics to the Bastille song, Pompeii, mostly the chorus and, more frequently, the lyric ... "how am I going to be an optimist about this?" Anyway, I finished the ride and, feeling quite a bit like a popsicle, made it back to the car where my husband was waiting to drive me home, changed in the parking lot (hopefully there were no cameras and if there were, I really didn't care), started the car and what came on the radio? First song.
2. This morning, a co-worker was telling me a funny story about an interaction with another colleague who I have never met and and never thought I would meet. This afternoon, I was on a conference call and who was one of the presenters?
3. This morning on my way to work, I was listening to the podcast #Herstory which is a series of 50 podcasts talking about inspirational women. The podcast this morning was about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who I had never heard of before. Tonight, while finishing dinner, my husband and I were watching Jeopardy (further evidence of my geekdom) and who came up in one of the clues?
