By Eric Rood
Synchronicity—in addition to being a killer album by The Police—is the Jungian concept that two unrelated things with some common characteristic align in some way at a particular moment that links them. Frequently, people interpret synchronicity to carry some great meaningful connection, when usually it’s probably just a strange coincidence.
On a recent errand in my wife’s car, I flipped on the radio and caught the local classic rock station playing “Working Man” by Rush, which I hadn’t heard in a few years. As I pulled up to a stoplight, I quickly noticed the Chevy Equinox at the intersection bore Rush’s 2112 logo and a Neil Peart-fanboy license plate. This being a weekend sighting, the radio station naturally had a ROCK BLOCK OF RUSH COMIN’ AT YA! and as the Equinox turned into a neighborhood, the opening riff of “Limelight” lurched from the car’s speakers. It had to be that song.
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