I am doing some garden work and a *star shaped ice cube* (pictured, center) falls out of the sky.
I look up (I'm beneath a tree) and see a black crow(?) fly away.
Pretty sure crow collected it from somewhere, + then dropped it. It's only partially melted.
2/ well, you know...
As a fan of Carl Jung, oracular wisdom, divination, synchronicity, etc., I HAVE to see what its symbolism might portend.
Of these, the ace of pentacles seems to 'fit' ...
as @thejessicadore once explained, the "gift from the sky" is an "Ace of" metaphor.
3/ curiously, in searching for the exact card, I can't find it! That exact card has gotten separated from the rest of the deck.
Convinced the universe might be playing some silly YouTube "magic trick" on me. Like David Blaine.
HOW DID THE CROW KNOW
whatever. Synchronicity.
4/ more importantly, those three cards together are unbelievably hopeful + affirming.
They speak to creativity, healing, positivity, possibilities, + "live your life".
I don't know what to make of this but if this is the "message" the universe has for me
I'LL TAKE IT 😄 /fin
5/ ok one small post-script:
What was in the star-shaped ice cube?
Corn, half a peanut, and sunflower seeds.
The crow dropped a small package of bird food, that was wrapped in a star-shaped ice cube.
I'm so. damn. curious right now.
6/ I swear, sometimes life is weirder than any dream.
7/ today I learned about "hagioptasia".
this gets at the inner synchronicities that I find in stories like my encounter with the crow - on one level, yes, I am sure there are perfectly rational and boringly prosaic explanations;
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 2/ this paragraph right here: (the "melancholic", or, we could say, the "dysfunctional coper", fails, because he is making it all about HIM - which is to say, he falsely assumes that HE can "fix it all" with his intellect or his effort somehow, instead of simply feeling the loss)
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 3/ his delusional coping style comes about, because he has a poverty-mindset - his reaction to loss is to become more "grasping"
A thread about the "note taking wars", + why famous s$%-p#$ter Tiag@ F@rte does not have a clue what he is talking about
@obsdmd is a gorgeous, well executed product with a fantastic community behind it. Yay!
♥️🚀 ♥️
... but it is *not* a "roam-like".
2/n block referencing and outlining, as implemented by @RoamResearch, are WAY more than just check-boxes to tick, in some arbitrary feature-comparison list.
They are *core* features of the product.
... CORE features that cannot be tacked on, if they're not in the product-DNA.
3/n Yet, it takes time to see this.
... when I first started using Roam, I was so conditioned by the Wikipedia model of backlinked pages, I couldn't 1st see that the true revolution, is at a deeper level.
Your team is currently hard at work designing what we believe will be an extraordinary 6 week learning experience for our beloved #roamcult -->
2/n There will be 2 groups working side by side - Beau will lead a discussion of Ahrens' "How to Take Smart Notes" and I'll lead, for returning members, "The Culture Code" by Dan Coyle.
My group will have a limited number of spots. Beau's group will not be size-limited.
3/n if you are unable to join the Coyle group (enrollment has to be capped, sorry) don't worry; you can still follow along; my plan is to live tweet + carry our discussion out to Twitter
Furthermore, the plan is to bring you more "episodes".
Hear me out, what if looking *really carefully* at the past can accomplish more than fantasizing about the future;
I think this year, I am going to focus on new-years RE-solutions, which will entirely be RE-implementing all the solutions I've already used, to make life awesomer.
2/ "I am at the confluence of past and future; melding these streams creatively is what makes life itself feel alive"
... is (I think) a paraphrase of Henri Bergson, of whose work I have not yet read enough...
3/ can't believe that I somehow failed to tag @calhistorian into a tweet thread rethinking the relationship between past and future ...
2/ was MOST amazing was not the palette + the rich hues of the sunlight cascading upwards from beneath the horizon,
No
The most amazing part was taking a moment to see how softly the clouds were scudding across it all.
The seeming delicacy of this, belying the enormous -->
3/...power of wind, water, heat, majesty of sunlight from ninety three million miles away lifting water and then causing it to slide gently across the sky in one of many convection currents that slide in + out forming a gently drifting cloud