REFLECTIONS

First, here are a few flowers from my backyard. I did not see the toad for several weeks (July 27, 2015) so I thought it was gone.  But today I saw it again! Maybe the toad was always there but so well camouflaged that I could not see it. Here are a few photos: Here you can see the hole it dug in the flower pot. See him in his hole? This is a closer shot. Here is an up-close photo.

Many years ago I had a pet hamster.  I named him Meatball.  I bought him for an experiment in my introduction to psychology class.  I kept a record of how I taught him to do something. I forgot what it was. He was very smart and figured out how to unlock his cage and explore the house.  He never bit me. Here's a video from Disneyland I found it on the Mashable website (  Mashable  )

I never knew about this: "Man-Spreading, or man-sitting, is the practice of sitting in public transport with legs wide apart, thereby covering more than one seat."  ~Wikipedia  I found out about it from an article on the web. I'm not sure what the site was. Then I searched for more images. It's not new: They even have signs  about it: But women can do it with her bags: Is she pregnant?

Carl Gustav Jung July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961 Did you ever notice how some coincidences seem to be more complicated than pure chance?  They have a meaning which coincidences do not have.  The event just makes sense even though there is no physical link.   In an earlier post I mentioned how my daughter took a bus to come visit us. On that bus was a man who offered her some orange flavored Tic Tacs.  She did not accept any.  The man looked a little strange to her. When we met her at the bus station I offered her some orange Tic Tacs!  Now  I usually don't eat orange flavored Tic Tacs but that day I had some.  Was it pure luck or did it mean something?  Was it some force or intelligence somehow preparing for her visit? I read that Carl Jung created the concept of synchronicity to explain these types of events.  I decided to do a little more research. I found this quote: "Jung believed in  the “complex” or emotionally charged associations. He