Migraine revenge and sychronicity

A vengeful, malicious imp had moved back in to my skull overnight for a bit of sledgehammer practice, after yesterday's ill advised comment on it's absence. Fortunately, the naratriptan proved efficacious by morning rise.

The mornings work was enlivened by an interlude retrieving a lost photograph on a computer 500 miles away using screen sharing technology. Sometimes technology provides opportunities for time consumption you could do without.

Then, in compensation, it permits design at a distance to the printing establishment. The only problem is that you still have to travel to the printer's to pick up the final product, as was the case this afternoon, where I traveled to Godmanchester to collect the Huntingdonshire Business Network banners prepared by Mr Burt's company, Jamy Ltd, from my digital template.

This did however bring me closer to the evening's Toastmaster meeting near Hemingford Grey. An inspirational meeting of speakers, with Ms Symons talking on coincidence and, in the case of multiple coincidences, leading to synchronicity.

The conventional view of events is causality, where there is a direct connection between subsequent or parallel events. In 1920, Carl Jung defined synchronicity as the experience of two or more events, that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, that are observed to occur together in a meaningful manner (source Wikipedia).

Synchronicity does not conflict with causality as the meaning of the occurrence of two events is a complex creation of the conscious and unconscious mind. However, percieved synchronicity can have a profound effect on an individual.

A lovely example of synchronicity was the search for and purchase of a genteel but battered coat from a second hand store, for the Wizard in the cinematic film "The Wizard of Oz". When the actor Mr Morgan turned the coat pocket inside out on a hot day, he found the name Frank L Baum within, the author of the book, "The Wizard of Oz" (source Snopes.com). The coat was identified by the original tailor and by Mr Baum's widow as once belonging to the author.