Synchronicity – events that seem related but are not obviously caused by one another
Posted on | February 7, 2006 | 27 Comments
A week ago I saw a flyer advertising baby sitting and took down the number. DH and I had been talking about how we’re finally ready to start letting someone take care of Bean for a couple hours during the week while we work together on the house, so we called. She was wonderful, and tonight she came and spent an hour with Bean while DH and I walked down town together like teenagers—just us, holding hands.
We stopped for chai (for me) and espresso (for him) and a chocolate filled pastry (to share, licking the chocolate off our fingers), and then went to the bookstore where I devoured (on a mini artist date) the glossy spreads in design magazinesand DH wandered off to the fantasy section.
When we left the bookstore it is snowing gently. Back home, Bean was happy and the babysitter was happy (which made me unbelievably happy, and terribly relieved). After she left, friends stopped by and we had an impromptu takeout dinner—pad thai, dumplings, tofu, spicy noodles. Then I took over the table with my boxes of scraps, paints, gel, glue sticks, brushes.
I’ve booked three art showings in cafes this week, and I’m unbelievably excited. (One thing I have done as a result of the Artist’s Way has been to acknowledge and set the ball in motion on some of the things that I’ve had on my dream list for way too long. Cafe art showings has been one of those things.) For the first time since I was a kid, I’m finally allowing myself to say it regularly. I am an artist.
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February 7th, 2006 @ 1:31 am
GOOD FOR YOU!
And you’ve inpired me to do the same. It’s about time!
February 7th, 2006 @ 1:54 am
Oh Christina this is just fantastic. I am so happy for you that a) you will have some date time together even if it will sometimes be dates getting your house together and b) you are going to have cafe art shows and c) you are owning that you, yes you, are an artist.
February 7th, 2006 @ 2:09 am
You are not just an artist…you are a gifted artist!
February 7th, 2006 @ 6:53 am
Wow, congrats on the showings! That’s just awesome.
February 7th, 2006 @ 7:12 am
you’re not just an artist. you’re an inspiration to everyone who visits your blog religiously.
I can’t believe I’ve been away for so long! I mean, I feel like I’ve missed a thousand things!
CONGRATULATIONS on your BOB award! I know a lot of people have done the happy dance for you, but hey, this one comes from PARIS! *happy dancing for Christina* you so deserve it! and I do hope this will give you the confidence you need to submit your writing to agents and publishers this year. remember? the acknowledgements section? MY NAME???
I’m also so excited about the house renovations, the pictures are wonderful and I’m so happy that you get to experience not just the building of your house, but the creating of your home.
oh, and I’m so happy you got a babysitter!! this is going to change your life!!
and cafe art shows? I’M SO PROUD OF YOU Christina!
sending many many good wishes for everything my dear friend.
xoxo
February 7th, 2006 @ 7:13 am
ok, that was a long comment.
next time, I’ll send you an email. sorry
February 7th, 2006 @ 7:29 am
Date nights are the best, esp. when you find an awesome babysitter ~ they are GOLD! Congratulations on the shows coming up. It’s wonderful when we acknowledge our dreams out loud.
February 7th, 2006 @ 7:46 am
It is wonderful to read all the great things that are happening in your life. My feeling is that this is just the beginning for you!
Many blessings, Nicole
February 7th, 2006 @ 8:07 am
cafe art shows? Can we say we knew you when? You rock!!! And happy baby-babysitter combinations are the best
February 7th, 2006 @ 8:44 am
being a babysitter, i’m going to put forth the suggestion that perhaps this all happened because of that babysitter
seriously, though, so happy to see the continual stream of good things happening for you and your family!
February 7th, 2006 @ 10:42 am
Congratulations on your cafe shows! That’s fabulous. And so is a good babysitter, holding hands while walking, chai and a chocolate filled pastry. Not to mention impromptu take-out dinners. It all sounds very, very good.
February 7th, 2006 @ 11:37 am
Your light always shines for me here, and I love that about you. Wonderful news on the cafe shows – I’m so proud of you! You are most certainly an artist – I still get that squishy good feeling when I think of your wondrous fish postcards. And hooray on spending some quality time with the husband – for all good things.
And pad thai? I’m so there!
February 7th, 2006 @ 12:05 pm
That is so kick ass! Congrats. But really, I don’t see how any self respecting cafe owner could look at your work and NOT give you a show… and free chai… and gobs of chocolate covered yummy bits… and babysitting money. You do see where I’m going with this, no?
February 7th, 2006 @ 1:57 pm
Oh PLEASE let me know when the cafe shows go up. I will be there with bells on!!!!!
What a fabulous year ahead you have. So much magic you are creating all around you.
February 7th, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Sounds lovely. One thing I’ve been meaning to do for the last 4 years has been to actually SPEND the money or PAY my sweetie to make frames for all my photographs I took while living abroad in Argentina. Plus, pay to have them enlarged etc. It would be a big “project” but I feel like this Spring it’s going to happen. Thanks for the extra inspiration.
February 7th, 2006 @ 2:49 pm
Great news! It sounds like you had the perfect night.
February 7th, 2006 @ 3:14 pm
Yeah! Yes, you are an artist. Congrats on the art shows! how exciting!
February 7th, 2006 @ 10:21 pm
so funny that you wrote this today …. i am talking about art on p2p as well. i love that you feel you are an artist. YOU ARE. what a delightful post.
February 8th, 2006 @ 12:06 am
yay! you are! you are an artist! congrats on your cafe shows…can’t wait to hear all about them. will you have openings?
February 8th, 2006 @ 12:10 am
this gave me the greatest shivers – thinking about what i’d like to actualize, bring into being, deliver from the ethereal world of my imagination to the tangible world of my hands. thanks for the inspiration!
February 8th, 2006 @ 7:33 pm
Oh, Christina, that is so exciting. First, a cafe art showing. Next, I keep hoping you’ll set up an online gallery and offer your work for sale. I think you have so many readers who would love to buy your work- including me! I’m glad your confidence is high- I sure think of you as an artist. Always have.
February 8th, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
Lucinda–I promise, an online gallery really is something I’ll put together this year–thank you for kicking my butt repeatedly about that.
February 9th, 2006 @ 2:16 am
Read your archived entry about your son and his first steps…and remembered my own blog entry of several weeks ago…my son, and steps of another kind…and couldn’t help but think that mother-pain is so much the same. At every stage. This was my entry:
Clicking on Tina’s link this AM, as I have gotten in the habit of doing, not necessarily as an imagination prompter, but more just to ask myself the questions that it generates…I clicked, and it asked me if there was something from this past week that I wish I could undo. Well, first impulse: YES! Then I got to thinking, yes…but he GREW from the experience (speaking of #1 son, and a rather sucky day with him on Monday) and so…now I’m not so sure. If I could erase the pain, the upset stomach that literally kept me from eating for about three days (benefit: 5 pounds lost.) and the feelings of utter helplessness, as I watch him struggle with life lessons I KNOW he must learn on his own, If I could erase all of that, and just have him GET it, I would. But I cannot, and I must stand next to him as he struggles with these things, and be there to help him pick up the pieces, (which I’m discovering is vastly different from picking them up for him) and watch him struggle with the reality of being not yet a man, no more a child. There is no worse feeling that I have encountered as a Mom, (Thank God) than watching my oldest struggle with his quest for independence, his quest for perfection, his second guessing of himself and his achievements.
Part of dealing with him this week, included a visit to the local law enforcement (initiated by me), so that he could hear from someone other than his parents about the consequences of poor choices. He told me he hated me as we drove up. I told him that I knew that, and that I loved him anyway, and that I wanted him to hear what the guy had to say. Not to scare him, but so that he would know full ramifications of his future choices, that I couldn’t, at 6’1†205 pounds, *make* him do anything, so I at least wanted him educated. He looked at me, told me he’d never been so angry at me in his life. And I looked at him, and my heart broke inside. Forty five minutes later, that same son was giving me a hug, and telling me how much he loved me, and all I could do was feel my eyes well up with tears, and think “God is good. Yep, He sure is. Thank You for this boy.â€
I want so much for my kids, and nothing is anything I can give them. I can only hope to teach them to seek it out for themselves, and hope that they have the desire, and the personal will to seek it. Things, like true happiness—the kind that money and stuff doesn’t bring, and a relationship with God, so that they always feel His presence and his unconditional love, things like a contented countenance, and loving humanitarianism. How do we teach this? Do we model it often enough? Can a Mom ever hug her kids too much? Gawd, I hope not.
**Good luck on your journey. A blessing of this magnitude you will seldom receive.**
February 10th, 2006 @ 9:26 am
Congratulations!
You are a talented artist. Good luck with your showings, I know they will go well.
February 11th, 2006 @ 1:44 am
I have such a difficult time with the whole babysitting thing. two kids into it and you’d think I would have a handle on things. but I have a hrd time letting go of my fears. ward and I need time alone together so desperately and your experience here has inspired me to at least CONSIDER letting go a little, look into getting a babysitter. grandparents do watch the kids from time to time but we really need someone regular. something to work on.
p.s. yay for the art shows… yay!
February 18th, 2006 @ 3:13 pm
Good for you!!! Not one, but THREE, shows! That ROCKS!!
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