On February 4, 2009, we started this blog on synchronicity. Originally, it was on blogger. But in 2011, a visitor who got angry about something we’d written, hacked the blog and took it over. He pretended to be Rob and wrote himself an apology. He also destroyed three of our computers.
We knew he was a computer guy in a town around Boston, knew his name, so we called the police department in his town to report him. Turned out that he’d already reported us to the department. If I remember correctly, he claimed that we’d hacked our own blog and blamed him. We also reported the hack to our local cops.A cop stopped by the house, we explained what had happened.
The cop told us there wasn’t much they could do about this. So we transferred the blog to Word Press. And that’s where we’ve been ever since.
At any rate, our first post is below. At the top of the post are some of the book that have grown out of this blog
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Most of us have experienced them – odd coincidences that seem like weird little hiccups in the cosmos.They usually grab our attention. But what, exactly, do they mean?
While we were writing our outline for a book on synchronicity, we stopped at our favorite cafe for a hit of morning Joe. As we sat outside, an elderly man approached us and handed us his card. It explained that he was deaf and was selling key chains. We bought one and on the back of the card found illustrations for sign language. On the way home, following the cue from the deaf man,we talked about synchronicity as a language of signs. Then we passed the local high school, where the digital sign at the entrance was announcing a class in sign language. This sign about sign language added a deeper layer to the synchronicity.
Initially, its meaning seemed to be that we were on the right track with our concept – approaching synchronicity as a language of signs. The next day, a writer friend e-mailed a synchronicity she’d experienced while working on her current novel. She said she had invited readers of her blog to submit any synchronicities they would like to share for inclusion in the book. So we decided to start this blog, a kind of digital sign announcing that we would love to hear your stories!
Congratulations on the anniversary of your blog. All your stories are so interesting and I have to say educational for me too because they have made me expand my awareness of happenings every day that I didn’t think about before.
You have some wonderful synchros, Caren!
Congratulations! I value your Blog so very much, the inspiration it has given me over the years. Thank you for the gift you continually give to so many people.
And sorry again to hear of the trouble that crazy man caused you.
Hi Trish and Rob, Congratulations on a wonderful site that I have been following since . . . I don’t remember the day but was in the beginning some time. Time sure does rush by.
You are one of our first blogging friends!