A tool whose only claim to fame is that it obeys the laws of gravity has played a mighty role throughout world history, beginning with the Egyptians, who created the earliest surveying instruments: the plumb-bob, the A-Level, T-Level and plumb square.

Is that it?” I wondered out loud to my Fakahatchee Strand swamp mates who in turn noted, in a collective gleeful chorus, “Yes!”

So this is what all the fuss is about, I said to myself as my mind’s song for the morning shifted from the snappy beat of “Ghostbusters” and “I ain’t afraid of no ghost” to Peggy Lee’s mournful existentialist song from 1969, “Is That All There Is?”

“Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it, none exists — with it, all things are possible.”
— Ida M. Tarbell

Synchronicity is a principle, according to psychiatrist Carl Jung, that explains experiences of two or more seemingly unrelated events as complex psychological creations, subject to both conscious and subconscious influences, that together create a meaningful moment.