A string of lights

Last year about this time I was decorating the Christmas tree with my husband & son.  We decided that the lights with green wire blended into the tree much better, but we only had one set of them, so my son & I headed out to purchase a string of lights.  I was trying to decide the best store to go--Walmart was closest, and as I passed it I thought to myself: "that was dumb, why am I going all the way to Lowe's?"  And I answered myself, "it's OK, you'll probably run into someone you know there."  Even though my hair & clothes reflected a long day spent at a tree farm, I wouldn't mind running into a friend.  
When we got to Lowe's I saw my friend/co-worker Mike heading into the store right in front of me.  So I caught up with him and we discovered that we were both there for the same reason--to buy one string of lights.          

It was so weird that we both showed up at the same time to buy the same thing from the same place.  

I remember that the week before, around December 8th, we'd been talking about purchasing flooring from Lowe's--because he had just purchased some and installed it and I really wanted to buy some.  Maybe that somehow put us on the same wavelength.

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  1. Sheila JoshiDecember 16, 2012 at 11:40 AM

    Hi Elizabeth -- I wasn't sure how to contact you, so I'm just writing a comment here. I wanted to thank you for putting a link to my blog in your blogroll. I've read your whole blog and you're really an excellent writer!

    If you haven't read it already, I recommend Robert Perry's "Signs." He also has a blog where he reports on and analyzes his synchros --

    http://www.semeionpress.com/signs/SignPosts/

    I have a more pluralistic view than he about the mechanisms of synchros, but I think his model is extremely helpful in validating and learning how to work with synchros.

    Looking forward to seeing you around the blogosphere!

    Sheila Joshi

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  2. ElizabethDecember 21, 2012 at 11:37 PM

    Hi Sheila, thank you for posting on the site/blog. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond to you, but I wanted to check out Robert Perry's blog and read more about Rupert Sheldrake before I replied. Sheldrake looks amazing. I had never considered him or looked into his work because I associated him with the hundredth monkey Effect which I posted previously had been debunked in my mind. So I've been spending a lot of time the last few days reading other blogs and exploring. Anyway I look forward to hearing more about your work and reading more of your ideas now that I have the background Or desire to learn about MORPH I C Fields. Sorry my Voice recognition software is acting up and won't understand the word MOR pH IC fields

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    1. Sheila JoshiDecember 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM

      Voice recognition software – cool! I have to try that some day!

      I’m so glad you’re enjoying Sheldrake. He’s a very freeing thinker.

      You are a sponge! As am I. There’s a lot of fascinating stuff to discover. We’ll be talking more. Wishing you good holidays and peace in the new year.


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