Sunday, February 22, 2009

SYNCHRONICITY - MY FAVORITE WORD

If you recall, this months prize give-away went to new reader Becca. Her prize happened to be the book A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, and a bar of homemade lavender soap from The Bountiful Sprout. Well, like me, Becca happens to be a fan of several ex-pat blogs - blogs about people who are living in a country other than their native one. So, Becca gets her new book and dives into the whole Provencal experience, then goes to the computer to visit some of her favorite bloggers, and what does she find but this - a nice long post about Peter Mayle and his books! She immediately dashes off a note to me about the lovely "synchronicity" of it all.

Now, if you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you are bound to know that I am extremely fond of this word, used to describe happy little serendipitous coincidences. I seem to use it quite often of late. So often, in fact, that it got me to thinkin'. I'm thinking that perhaps there are always good things just waiting to fall into place for us, but we are not always open to them. When we rush through our days trying to multi-task, or spend our time worrying about what's to come or what happened in the past, I think we often miss the signs that are all around us. Once we learn to slow down and be completely present in the moment though, synchronicity abounds - our gift from the universe.

3 comments:

Trish and Rob MacGregor said...

Hi,
I read your synchronicity comments and thought you might like to look at our blog on synchronicity.

It's: www.ofscarabs.blogspot.com

Rob MacGregor

Hill Country Hippie said...

Thanks, I did - fascinating! Of course, my synchronicities are much more mundane than most of these. For me, it's usually a matter of taking advantage of small opportunities that set a chain reaction in motion. Hmmm, I feel a new blog post idea coming on, about the day I stumbled upon a blog called Lifescapes, and everything that has led to...

musingegret said...

Hmmmm, I just now read this post and then checked out the MacGregor's referenced blog(first time). Their most recent entry was "Renie and Adam Walsh". Earlier this evening I had read the most recent list on the List Universe blog, "Top 10 Codes You Aren't Meant to Know" and the Number 1 code is Code Adam, invented by Wal-Mart to designate a missing child in store. This "code was first coined in 1994 in memory of Adam Walsh" (see http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/top-10-codes-you-arent-meant-to-know/). It was all news to me!

Can't wait to read about Lifescapes and the chain it began. All this has just now inspired me to start a diary briefly noting instances of 'sync'. Becca (the book winner)