A Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing: August 16, 2010 - A starving cat, a grinning cat and a good jolt of electricity

What does it mean?

You've been thinking about somone. Somone you haven't heard from in weeks, months or even years, and within a short period of time you receive some kind of communication from them. Twice I received letters from a woman I had worked with years before within a day of thinking about her for the first time in a long period of time. The second instance I even stopped in front of the mailbox and had the idea that there was going to be a letter from her because it had already happened once and sure enough, there was a letter in the box. My question is obvious. What is this phenomenon that boils down to a "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing"?

Is it God? Is it the Universe? Entanglement? Are our brains Quantum computers? Is it the "Law of Attraction"?, or is it all nothing more than a coincidence? Carl Jung called it synchronicity and it happens all the time. Does it happen to you? It happens to me and I find myself wondering "What does it mean?". Decide for yourself as you follow my diary of another "Strange Case Of Uncanny Timing", also known as a S.C.O.U.T!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

August 16, 2010 - A starving cat, a grinning cat and a good jolt of electricity

Background – Yesterday, my husband and I took a rare trip to rural Loudoun County to run a starving, stray cat out to the animal shelter in order to get the poor thing some much needed help. On our drive back home, we see the mammoth poles for the enormous power lines that are being run from one side of the county to the other. The poles run steadily down the left side of Rt7 and then abruptly stop. When you look to the right, they seem to resume their march down Rt7 on the other side. I looked from one side of the road to the other and commented to my husband “Are they really going to run those huge power lines across a road this size? I can’t believe it, but that’s what it looks like they’re going to do!” He responded that he had no idea what they were doing with those power lines as he hadn’t heard anything about this project.

S.C.O.U.T. – We arrived home, flipped on the TV and stopped to watch a moment of local news. Tucked into the morning’s top stories was a brief update on the power line work in Leesburg, and how they are preparing to run the enormous lines across the major Rt7 – showing a picture of the exact spot we had just passed by! I was stunned, and ridiculously glanced over my shoulder in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the one responsible for directing this charade we call reality, as I was sure I would catch them standing directly behind me, grinning from ear to ear like the Cheshire Cat!!

Neither my husband nor I, who are both avid local news people, had ever seen a single report on the construction of these power lines… until this morning. I chuckled to myself as the timing of the story sunk in and that old familiar tingle crept down my spine. What a strange case of uncanny timing. It’s as if there is a constant conversation going on around me in which my question was quickly and easily answered as part of this ongoing cosmic chatter.

My goofy dog Scout is very quiet this morning as he contemplates the idea that there is a county shelter where you can take animals that are sick, starving and wandering the neighborhood. He finds himself wondering if they also take animals that mock their owners and misbehave. For once, I have no comment for him, and just allow him to wonder ;)