{"id":30449,"date":"2016-08-30T00:09:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2016-08-30T00:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:09:43","slug":"synchronicity-with-carol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/30449","title":{"rendered":"Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tFlashback Monday! I ran across\u00a0something from a few years ago and\u00a0thought you might enjoy reading it again. I know I did. It’s such a magical story about synchronicity …<\/em><\/p>\n

This just in from Carol Hill, my BFF, lead graphic designer, MaryJanesFarm <\/em>magazine editor, fashionista, ukelele player,\u00a0Northwest Best Laugh Contest winner\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Take it away, Carol!!!!<\/p>\n

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In our Aug\/Sept 2010 issue, \u201cLay of the Land,\u201d we published a story from Aimee Steiner, a MaryJanesFarm<\/em> reader living\u2014of all places\u2014on a tiny, remote Pacific island named Rota. At the time, we were astounded that our magazine had reached such faraway places. But the story had just begun.<\/p>\n

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Not only did that article result in our readers sending over 10,000 books to rebuild Rota\u2019s library that was lost in a typhoon (read that incredible story in our Dec\/Jan 2012 issue, \u201cCome All Ye\u201d), but it also sparked another reader to call with this fascinating story \u2026<\/p>\n

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Seas of Destiny?<\/h3>\n

A synchronistic event occurs when we recognize similarities in two or more apparently unrelated incidents. Author Ashok Bedi (Path to the Soul<\/em>) says, \u201cThe soul often whispers to us through synchronistic events,\u201d and that these events can be a powerful \u201cheads-up,\u201d calling us to pay attention.<\/p>\n

Richard Burns recently received his heads-up courtesy of MaryJanesFarm<\/em>. When he phoned the farm and asked for 10 minutes of Meggie\u2019s time to tell a story that might interest us, she was intrigued.<\/p>\n

The story begins in 1962. While Burns was enrolled in a Spanish class in Jacksonville, Florida, his teacher sent the class to the nearby docks to practice their newly learned second language on the crew of a Spanish navy boat, the Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 25 years. While researching oil paintings for his wife, Burns met an artist with a room full of painted canvases. Asked if he\u2019d like to see the painter\u2019s favorite, Burns was surprised to see a painting of the ship he\u2019d spent the day on those many years prior, the Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano.<\/p>\n

Nearly another 20 years passed until, in 2007, Burns helped a friend sort and catalog the hundreds of plastic models and figurines in his collection. After they categorized all 500, they were left with a single ship. As he turned it over to look for markings, he saw its name: the Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano.<\/p>\n

This summer, while visiting Washington State with his wife, our magazine caught Burns\u2019 eye. The \u201cInvest in Happy Cows\u201d cover line prompted him to pick it up from the hardware store newsstand and purchase it. But Aimee Steiner\u2019s story about rebuilding a bookstore in the wake of a typhoon on the tiny Pacific island of Rota was the article that held his interest. Having never heard of Rota, Burns did a little Internet research \u2026 only to find that the first European to set foot on Rota, in 1524, was the Spanish navigator Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano.<\/p>\n

We published Richard\u2019s story in our Oct\/Nov 2010 issue, \u201cAttitude of Gratitude,\u201d shaking our heads at the wild coincidence. But the story still wasn\u2019t over. During our Christmas break, I had a friend visit from California. Tucked into the many little gifts she brought were a stack of old postcards, since she knew I had a cache of cards for crafting projects. One was of the Sydney harbor from her travels to Australia.<\/p>\n

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When I turned the card over to read about the scene, I was bowled over to find the following inscription:<\/p>\n

SYDNEY
\nJanuary, 1988
\nThe \u2018Dar Mlodziezy\u2019 from Poland leads
\nSpain\u2019s \u2018Juan Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano\u2019
\nout of Sydney during the Parade of Sail.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Serious synchronicity!<\/p>\n

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Flashback Monday! I ran across\u00a0something from a few years ago and\u00a0thought you might enjoy reading it again. I know I did. It’s such a magical story about synchronicity … This just in from Carol Hill, my BFF, lead graphic designer, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}