Synchronicity

I've been reading a lot this year.  I recently finished The Left Hand of Darkness and Wuthering Heights, and yesterday moved on to Beloved.  In the book Sethe describes rememories to her daughter Denver.  She says that the things which happen to us and our memories are never erased, that they live on and are connected to the landscape.  She says that sometimes you are walking and start to see things happening around you--those are rememories of others which they have left behind. Sethe says: "If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place-the picture of it-stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. What I remember is a picture floating around there outside my head. I mean, even if I don't think about it, even if I die, the picture of what I did, or knew, or saw is still out there." I'm also reading a (really poorly written) book about astral projection and the author describes something similar existing on the astral plane--the thoug...

This week, on June 2nd, my son was telling me he wants to learn about Asia. He said he'd been learning about different places in the world at school, but he didn't learn anything about Asia. I pulled up a map of Asia in Google Maps and then decided to see where Google has street view. For those who aren't aware, if you are in Google maps, you can pick up the orange figure of a person which is in the left side of the screen (at the top of the zoom feature) and start to drag it over the map; as you do this, some parts of the map will start to be highlighted in blue--these are the regions which have "street view". Street view is an amazing feature of Google created with a series of panoramic photos taken by vehicles on the road (all done by volunteers, I believe) all over the world. It also includes panoramic photos of the interiors of some buildings so that you can take a virtual tour. Anyway, I zoomed out so that a good portion of the earth was visible on the scree...