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I see Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick on that shelf snap, incredible book of essays and an incredible woman, highly recommend. Samantha Irby’s wow no thank you has some pretty funny moments. We have big questions weighing our family right now. I am looking for omens and direction, two or three maybe felt significant and positive so - I collected them and was grateful. I was traveling in airports a lot this week and I m was not having interesting convos and kledons in the liminal space Moss loves so much. Over the past few weeks I kept having inclinations to catch up with a friend, this week even more so- with specific visual memories of her coming up over and over- and when I called her she did have some big news (but not altogether a surprise, we had discussed the topic a few months ago). So in short- maybe I am still trying to stay tuned with what I see and what my mind surfaces and then act on it.

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I love that you are looking, Lauren, and that you both gather and do see and hear and act upon what stands out to you ... but that you are also pragmatic. I'm sorry that the airports were not full of synchronicity, but I would imagine you also were busy with lots of details involving your travel. I hope things are becoming more clear. Your phone call with a friend is right on track with this book.... I'm glad you are acting on moments like that and trusting that they "might" be important!

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Thanks for making the space to pursue these ideas Amy! It’s been a fun change of pace. 😊

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Of course! I’m glad we’ve been able to read this together!

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I've decided not to do a new post this week for Chapter 5. I'll wrap up Chapter 5 and 6 (and the book) next week. I value the few of you who are participating, but there are so few of us that taking the time to post (and to have a post showing up) doesn't make the most sense. I hope you read Chapter 5 -- and enjoyed all of Moss's airplane tales. We'll check in next week for any closing thoughts.

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Mar 20Liked by Amy Cowen

I think one of the reasons that readers are falling away from this book is that it doesn’t really live up to us promise. I was reading the chapter about airline synchronicities, and it was really just about sitting with interesting people on an airplane. That’s stretching synchronicity a bit too far. We often meet people who have common interests

Again, I appreciate Moss for his encouraging us to notice what is going on around us. I do think the universe sends us messages and prompts and pushes us in benign directions.

You do so much, Amy, and I so appreciate the work you’ve put in on this book.

I’ve been hanging out in the newly renovated central library here in Portland, and the browsing is so fruitful. At the last visit I picked up two books that started with “the art of“. One was about stillness, and the other was about social media. I didn’t even notice the title similarities until I got home. Is that a synchronicity? Sometimes a synchronicity is just a coincidence.

Browsing in the library is one avenue to synchronicity, though. We’ve all had that experience: You find a book that changes your life that you never even thought about until you saw it on the shelf.

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I appreciate you taking time to comment, Fran. I think you are right that the book fell a bit short of what many hoped. I would say the books are still possibly a moment of synchronicity..... I love the dichotomy though between your two picks!

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Mar 20Liked by Amy Cowen

I just got to looking more closely at that selection of books. I couldn’t figure out why some of them were there. Then I noticed that some are misfiled. Life on the Mississippi for example, belongs on another shelf. And the Dewey number changes from 814 halfway through the bottom shelf, which is why those titles don’t seem to fit. (814 is essays by American authors, some of them humorous.)

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Interesting observation!

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