March 27, 2002Synchronicity - the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality -- used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung

The day after I took this picture I heard on NPR that Andrew Rankin received a patent for the urinalon this very date in 1866.