Synchronicity

I'm sure lots of you have experienced synchronicity in your lives. It happened a lot to me and yesterday afternoon it happened again.

I had been to a local festival which was really good - the weather turned beautiful with nice cool breeze. Lots of artistic activities there, you could paint shades of green on long white cloth hanging from trees, you could make an instrument using dried bottle gourds and other natural materials. There were a lot of stalls selling home-made cakes, soup and packed lunch. Open-air cafes and tiny bonsai shops. In an open field there was a stage built with local cidar trees and you could enjoy listening to live music and dance performances. It felt a bit like 1960's hippie fair although certainly no dodgy stuff here in leafy Chiba-ken.

Back home I suddenly wanted to talk to someone in English. Recently I was thinking that I was really in need of speaking to someone in English on a daily basis. There is something in English that liberates me in some ways. Well in other ways English could be restricting not because of its grammar but due to my lack of vocabulary.

Anyway a friend's name landed on my head - he was Iain's close friend and someone we often met in the U.K. but for some reason I hadn't got in touch with him after I came back here. "Yes!" I thought, " I'd like to talk with him!" Opening Iain's address book I dialed his number. His wife answered and we said hello to each other. Later he was on the phone. Surprisingly, he told me that he had just started writing an email to me at that time! We do have telepathy don't we?

posted by Edera