Synchronicity

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle | C. G. Jung

Thank you Elizabeth- this is so perfect - and as usual will share TMI with my liitsy fam 🧡 With Fall i soak my legs almost every day to reduce pain- and am thinking I don‘t want my phone to take notes on while i think, i need to grab a notepad- And then later that day Friday I think- This arrived- And my bathroom is Forest/Mushroom/Fairy themed! Now my mushroom notepad is exactly right and a total glimmer 💛🧡💛

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StaceGhost Love this synchronicity ❤️✨ 1y

mabell Oh I love that! I‘m so glad!! 🍄❤️ 1y

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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle | C. G. Jung

Did you ever have a reading experience where you read two books back to back, that should be unconnected, but somehow sync up and tell each other‘s story in a different way?
I did, & I can‘t stop thinking about it. I‘m gonna ruminate a bit here.
I finished both these books last night. And was blown away by both. But what really kicked it up was where they intersected.
How does a book about race in America overlap with an Arthurian legend? 👇🏻

Sweettartlaura The answer is memory - how we deal with it as a culture. 5y

Sweettartlaura Coates‘ collection of essays is about many things. But one of the takeaways is that we have to have a reckoning about race in this country. We try to move on, make things better, level the playing field, leave the past in the past. 5y

Sweettartlaura Ishiguro‘s novel is a tale of a quest to kill a dragon whose breath settles on all and makes them forget, the good and the bad. And those on the quest have to reckon with the notion that what they can‘t remember might be better forgotten. 5y

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Sweettartlaura But they know it isn‘t - they know that a life lived in mist & fog, without clarity, is half a life, with nothing solid beneath it. Nothing certain to cling to. 5y

Sweettartlaura And that brings me back to Coates‘ entreaty for reparations: until America slays the dragon that clouds all our discussions, all our history books, all our progressive programs, we just aren‘t the America we say we are, were, and want to be. 5y

Sweettartlaura We have to have the courage of Ishiguro‘s Britons & Saxons, risking both the peace between their people, and the peace in their personal relationships, in order to have a true reality, rather than one that appears to be just ok for many. 5y

Sweettartlaura This was such a weird combination of books to read in tandem. But I suggest you try it, too. You get the message one way. And then you see it play itself out in another way. 5y

Sweettartlaura Moments like this are why I read ♥️ 5y

emtobiasz What a great moment of book serendipity! I love when a book gives unexpected insight into another, particularly when read back-to-back. My moment this year was a book about toxic masculinity helping me pinpoint what I didn‘t like about a kids book I had just finished:

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Sweettartlaura @emtobiasz Wow 😮. Talk about unexpected connections! Isn‘t it amazing??? I wonder how non-readers come across these life lessons 🤔😜 5y

ephemeralwaltz Great post! Thanks for sharing. 5y

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