Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Synchronistic Serendipity

Synchronicity -- the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality -- used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

Serendipity -- the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also, accidental fortunate gifts.

I have become a spiritual magpie, collecting sacraments. Everyday oracles. Postcards on the floors of elevators, fortunes from cookies, small rocks. Lyrics from songs, junk mail. I line my nest with these shiny bits of tin foil, waiting for some scrap to reveal itself to be gold or silver or maybe even a diamond, dusty with ordinary earth. Waiting for it to flare into meaning, profound and rich.

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