24.5.2009
Who Said Synchronicity?
Who Said Synchronicity? http://www.netsaga.is/media/files/Sleeper.MP3 His finger on the passage, he approached the counter and asked, -Did someone just say -synchronicity? As he held the page towards the women, one responded with: -Don't tell me... Apparantly a coincidence had just occurred at the counter. Geoffrey says he was in such a state that, to his eternal regret, he left the bookshop without finding out what the coincidence was.
Geoffrey Crooke was in a bookshop scanning a page page 112 of Jean Houston's Godseed. He had just come to the passage, '...the pattern of fortunate coincidences around her was astonishing. Synchronicities just seemed to flourish in her presence...' when he overheard a snatch of conversation between 2 women at the counter in which in which the word 'synchronicity' was emphasized. Forgotten Advice
A librarian sen out a reminder notice when a book became a month overdue. The book's title: Improve your Memory.
Bit Wit
The magazine Dental Advisor, published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has as one of its clinical consultants Dr. Randall W. Toothaker of Alabama.
Concorde Cousins
Mr. WL Clark writes that in his seventy-three eventful yearshe has experienced a number of memorable coincidences. One incident began a few years ago, when he was flying into Britain on a British Airways jet. An aviation enthusiast he avidly read an article in the airline's in-flight magazine titled A Day in the Life of a Concorde Pilot. The most intriguing thing about the article was the name of the author, Christopher Orlebar. It brought back vivid memories of his boyhood heroes, the members of the British Schneider Trophy team, one of them Flight-Lieutenant Orlebar. The team itself, he recalled had been skippered by Squadron Leader Stainforth. Upon landing he wrote to the author. In reply the author told him that F-L Orlebar was a first cousin who had died before he (Christofer) was born. He also sent Mr. Clark his book, The Concorde Story. IN 1993 Mr. Clark took a trip around the world which included a stopover with a cousin of his wife's, Gordon on Hermans Island, about 100 km from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
One pleasant afternoon they sere sitting drinking whisky on the veranda, enjoying the peace and tranquility and the view, when the scene was disturbed by a -boom, boom- noise, causing Clark to ask if there was a shooting range near by. Gordon said no, the noise occurred twice daily, when Concorde took off from Kennedy airport.
The incident naturally led Mr. Clark to mention his story of the cousins who were pilots and the involvement of one of them in the Schneider Trophy team led by Stainforth. As a result of this, Gordon went to his library and returned with a thick bound volume, explaining that it was a book of his mother's family history. He scanned through the pages, found what he was looking for and held it out for Clark to read: A letter from cousin Ermytrude in England enclosing a newspaper cutting announcing that Wing Commander Stainforth had been killed in action in N-Africa. He was the oldest flying member of the Royal Air Force and in his earlier years had led the British Schneider Trophy team to complete success. Gordon's mother's maiden name was Stainforth and they had been first cousins.