For the past 40 days, 33 miners have been trapped underground in the village of Copiapo. Many of the miners’ families have been living there, sleeping in tents, communicating with their spouses through video chat, made possible by a fiber optic cable dropped through a narrow hole.
One of the trapped miners, Ariel Ticona, had reason to celebrate today. At 12:20 PM, his wife, Elizabeth Segovia, gave birth to a baby girl. According to the AP, Ticona and his wife were going to name their daughter Carolina, but “each decided independently to change the name to Esperanza – Spanish for Hope.” As his wife told Chile’s Canal 13 network, “He thought of it there and I thought of it here in the house. She was going to be named Carolina Elizabeth, but now her name will be Esperanza Elizabeth.”
The synchronicity here is personally significant. Esperanza the baby came into the world the same day that Esperanza the novel did. Thanks to Ray Getzinger and Nancy Atkinson for alerting us to the story. Their emails came in just minutes apart.
Hey, healing! Thanks from one Esperanza and probably from the other one, too!
welcome to the world Esperanza (s) !!!
We spent part of our honeymoon years ago in Chile. I love that country and its people. You're so right about them, Ray.
Aleksandar – Serrano's book remains one of my all time favorites.
I didn't even think of the date connection with the release of Esperanza. I should have as I received notice that my copy had been shipped.
Vicki, I see you noticed how caring are the people of Chile. Of all the countries I have been to Chile holds a special place in my heart. I met so many wonderful people that I came away feeling the people in the places I visited are the friendliest on earth. And that was while Pinochet was still in power.
I met so many wonderful people in the month I was still there, especially in Talcahuano, one of the cities devastated by the recent earthquake.
They take care of their own unlike the mine owners in West Virginia.
WV: Rambile a synchro as it is the name of a newborn kitten
Ray
Miguel Serrano (mentioned indirectly in my previous comment in that Abraxas part) was from Chile.
ESPERANZA VIVE!!!
cold chills just reading this magnificently beautiful and moving story!!! just incredible! but i'm not surprised! double ditto all above!!!
The might of Esperanza! It's no doubt keeping the miners spirits alive until they are rescued.
Congratulations on the birth of your novel, Trish, and to the miner whose child was born while he spends month after month underground. I am still praying they get them out, after such a long time. They need all the HOPE they can get!
Wow! I found out yesterday that Greenpeace's ship is Esperanza. Also, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZVCD6y-LNM I left a comment (it's a musical video about death of ego and rebirth – I am Zhivaldinhose at Youtube), then I watched the film Splice (the first scene is a birth of a mutant). Here https://tenhornedbeast.blogspot.com/2010/09/abraxas.html, also yesterday, I left a comment also mentioning Jung and Hesse. Mind you, I in Hesse's Demian is mentioned a bird (Abraxas) trying to get out of an egg after the old world is destroyed. My synchronicities (coincidences) from yesterday don't end here.
I've already mentioned before in a comment that, at the moment of reading Demian, my life looked very much like (the main character) Emil Sinclair's.
Word verification: baboidi or (babo, idi) "go away, granny" in Serbian.
Oh wow, what a beautiful story – lovely synchro. It does indicate that everything will turn out for the best for those miners and their families :-)If I may, I'd like to add a comment to the Dexter synchro, too. I woke up last night and couldn't fall asleep so I went on the Internet and ended up reading an article where Dexter was mentioned. I think I must have read it around the same time you posted this story 🙂
Beautiful, God weaving his wand at his brilliant best…
I love this synchronicity.
Very sweet!
The book's South American locale, and now the baby's name, right on your book release date… wow.
I'm loving the book, Trish!
Wow, how awesome. 🙂
Funny!
We've got a post coming up soon on Dexter and Jeff Lindsay's signing at a nearby bookstore.
That is quite the synchro! I had a funny one today. I was sitting on my couch watching an episode of Dexter, when I thought to go check the mail. When I got the mail the copy of Esperanza that Trish sent me was there. I ripped it open and as I sat on the couch with Dexter paused in the background I read the praise on the back of the book by Jeff Lindsay, author of Dexter by Design!
What they've done with this disaster is just amazing – and all of this in the wake of a devastating earthquake.
Oh my gosh, another Esperanza!
This is also a beautiful and touching story. I think it is wonderful how they have managed to set it up so that the minors could watch a big soccer match, keep in touch with loved ones …these men have not been abandoned. It gives you hope and it is wonderful to read in the news about the kindness of the community there.
I think and also pray that this event will have a happy ending!
That's absolutely beautiful…I don't know what else to say. Any comment on this story seems superfluous.