{"id":637,"date":"2006-03-22T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2006-03-22T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T00:24:00","slug":"637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Ho hum, synchronicity<\/strong><\/p>\n

On my way north on Monday, I stopped in at Isis Books<\/a>. It was my first visit in several years, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the store enlarged and with more books (and stuff) than ever.<\/p>\n

I was chatting with owner Karen Charbonneau in the storeroom when she broke off from asking me how M. was doing to take a telephone call. The caller, who wanted to order an item from their mail-order catalog, was calling from the very small town in the Hudson Valley where M. grew up.<\/p>\n

Maybe when you work in a metaphysical bookstore this sort of thing happens all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ho hum, synchronicity On my way north on Monday, I stopped in at Isis Books. It was my first visit in several years, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the store enlarged and with more books (and stuff) than ever. 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