Synchronicity.....

Some friends/neighbors and I started a new book club. Our first meeting was this month and we read Consider the Butterfly.  I can't say it was one of my favorite books....but it did lead to an interesting discussion....mostly about any experiences we'd had with sort of "touches" from the "other side". The author described what she called "synchronicities" in her life and encouraged the reader to be open to the idea as they moved through their days.

Having had several personal experiences that I truly do consider messages from someone I love I was open to her concept even if I wasn't crazy about the book. Then, a few days ago, I brought up a completely different kind of fiction from ECP's library. It was a mystery by James Lee Burke entitled The Glass Rainbow. Dave and I have read a number of his books and while not award winning fiction they are very readable and follow many of the same main characters each time. 

Chapter 14 began with the following paragraph...."At a certain point, perhaps we realize that we have been surrounded by the connections between the material and the unseen world all our lives, but for various reasons, we chose not to see them....So I have never argued with people about the specters I have seen or the voices I've heard....I know the dead are out there, beckoning from the shadows, perhaps pointing the way for the rest of us. But I don't fear them, and I conceive of them as friends whom I don't think I'll mind joining. It's not a bad way to be."

I think the author of Consider the Butterfly would consider me being part of the book discussion group and then reading this particular passage as an example of synchronicity.

Who knows????

Through a Lens.....

A few weeks ago Dave and I went to the Milwaukee Art Museum. It was a beautiful day and we enjoyed both the special photography exhibit and walking through halls lit by sunlight. The long hallway facing Lake Michigan is always a favorite and feathers a changing exhibit of three dimensional art....often glass pieces that reflect and glisten. This one caught my special attention.

A sphere of glass about 18 inches in diameter, looking through it gave you a new perspective on the sights just out the window. A bit bent and curved, the blue sky, the bare trees, geese and yellowed winter grass as well as the "v" shaped windowsill became their own work of art. 

A slightly new perspective on a very familiar view.....loved it.

Lost and Found....

It will only be about six weeks late....that's not bad. Summer 2022 and we visited the Morning Glory Art Fair downtown with our daughter. We wandered up and down the aisles and into artists' booths to look and talk about the creativity on display. In one booth Megan knew the jewelry maker so we stopped to chat. As we looked at her display Megan pointed to a pair of earrings that she really liked and I suggested they might be a Christmas gift. If we bought them in the summer and I saved them she would have "forgotten" by Christmas morning....so they came home with me. And I put them in a safe place.

December 2022 and our whole extended family decided we really would not exchange gifts this year. Dave and I would stuff West Bend Christmas stockings because we'd be staying over night but other than that we'd just visit long distance family via phone or hug local loved ones in person. I figured I would wrap the earrings and they could go in Megan's stocking along with a candy bar or something.

But I could not find them. They were really "safely" hidden somewhere in our apartment. I literally went through my whole closet, drawers, shelves. I checked my sewing supplies and looked in the pantry. No luck. Dave looked....no luck.

So on Christmas morning Megan got a wrapped "note" as a substitute. She would get her earrings when I found them.

February 7th, 2023 and Dave was pulling tax information together. He brought down the paperwork storage box from one of our double closets and noticed something. Reaching up he grabbed the plastic bag and said "Look what I found!"

Wrapped and ready to go.

Better late than never!