It seems a good time to throw out a few of the fun synchronicities that have gotten my attention in the last couple weeks.
27 Dresses
One evening, I was channel surfing during the commercial of a show I was watching, and I stumbled across the movie 27 Dresses. I saw the movie a couple years ago, but when I saw it on TV, I thought, “I like that movie. I’d like to see it again.” Then I switched the channel back to my show and forgot about the movie.
Two days later, Tim came home and said, “I got the movie, 27 Dresses, from the library. I thought we might watch it again.” (I am married to that rare breed of man who actually enjoys romantic comedies.) Tim hadn’t been in the room with me when I’d seen the movie on TV, and I hadn’t said anything to him about it.
Bubkes
One night, I stumbled upon a list of Yiddish words that are in mainstream usage. I tested myself to see how many I knew, and then I tested Tim. He didn’t know many of the words, which is understandable since his vocabulary is just 4 years old, but when he missed the meaning of “bubkes,” I was surprised because that’s actually a word I use from time to time. (In case you don’t know, bubkes means “nothing.”) I teased Tim about his knowledge of Yiddish words, which I told him was bubkes, and then I picked up the novel I was reading. Two pages into my reading, one of the characters used the word bubkes.
Guy Finley
One afternoon, I listened to a Guy Finley audio about releasing fear while I did some marketing odds and ends on the computer. As the audio was drawing to a close, I received an e-mail that contained a message from one of my Facebook groups. The message contained Guy Finley’s “Ten Traits of the True Spiritual Warrior.”
Financial Improvement
I began writing about my ideal financial life on a Saturday. By the following Wednesday, events that I did not orchestrate at all had removed a couple big monthly financial obligations, so our monthly budget was reduced by $1500. Definite financial improvement.
Estallela
Last Wednesday, I sat in the car waiting for Tim and I spotted a sign for a doctor with the last name Estallela. I puzzled over how to pronounce it before remembering that he was my mother’s ophthalmologist, and then the pronunciation came to me.
Later that evening, in my novel, one of the characters was named Estallela.
Have you noticed how often events in my real life show up in the novels I read?
Tilapia
Last week, a friend posted a recipe for tilapia on her food blog. I’d never tried that fish, so the recipe got my attention. Four days later, we got together with my parents, and my dad started talking about tilapia. I’d never heard him talk about it before.
Fort Warden Information
Because my mother knows that Tim and I love Fort Warden in Port Townsend (that’s where he proposed to me), she gave me an article she found on the Fort. The day after I read it, I was working on a writing project of mine. I mention Fort Warden in one part of it, and I realized I needed a couple facts. To get them, all I had to do was snag the article out of the recycle bin. Talk about timing!
Eagles
Tim and Ducky and I are blessed to live in a place where deer, raccoons, opossum, and other critters roam our neighborhood and where eagles soar above sparkling water. Last week, Tim said he saw the eagles by the bay again. He said one of them took off and he was mesmerized by the grace of its flight. “I’d like to see close-up pictures of eagles,” Tim said, “and learn more about them.
The next day, Tim dug through our older movies to find something upbeat to watch. He pulled out Continental Divide and told me he didn’t remember it but that he did remember I said it was cute. “Do you want to watch it?” he asked. I said sure.
Because Tim didn’t remember the movie, he didn’t know that the main female character lives in the Rocky Mountains so she can study bald eagles. When the eagles appeared on the screen, in close up, Tim said, “Wow, I was just saying I wanted to see this.” Yep, I thought.
The next day, I stopped to talk to a woman by the bay, and she told me she’d taken a couple visitors to the Ocean Shores Interpretive Center, a nature center that features displays of the variety of flora and fauna found in our area. She said, “Did you know they have a little area to watch DVDs?”
I didn’t.
She said, “One of the DVDs is a really awesome one about eagles. It’s just amazing.”
I smiled. More eagle pictures for Tim. He asked. He received.
Most of the law of attraction results we get are tiny things, little synchronicities that seem to have no relevance to the big things we desire to have. I’m convinced, though, that these little results are indicators of our creative power. When we pay attention to them, they can give us a huge incentive to keep our thoughts focused on what makes us feel good.
You might try making a list of all the little results you notice. It’s sure better than noticing what hasn’t shown up yet.
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At the end of May, thanks to some serious misalignment, the law of attraction brought to us an uprooted, leaning tree. The “facts” are that a freak wind storm broke off the top of one tree, and that treetop fell into a second, dead tree, knocking it partially over. Surrounding trees caught the dead tree and kept it from going all the way over, but its position was precarious.
In 1996, when I moved to the beach, I bought a book, Drawing For Dummies, because I thought that now that I was going to be a free-spirited divorcee, I would try my hand at art. But I was so busy walking on the beach and writing that the book sat on the shelf. Until 2008.
