Synchronicity

12 a.m. 24 August 2008.

In Peshawar, Pakistan , Pakistani troops pounds Islamic militants in the volatile northwest killing 37 in retaliation for suicide attacks that have put pressure on the new government to counter a growing extremist threat.

From where I am sitting, I see an army of red ants feasting on the morsel my sister dropped on the floor.

Deep in the center of our galaxy, circling suspiciously close to the giant black hole lurking there, is a group of massive stars being formed from a tenuous cloud of gas, that have been ripped apart by the savage gravitational forces from the black hole nearby.

There are 849, 204 people having orgasm right this very moment.

Floods in southern Chad have forced 10,000 people from their homes and killed three, the United Nations said, adding to the toll from seasonal rains spreading destruction and disease across Africa's Sahel region.

Our neighbor is honking his car. I hear their gate opening, his dog Theodore yelping and from afar, the droning bellows of the balut vendor.

Government troops have penetrated the lair of separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leader Abdurahman Macapaar, alias Commander Bravo, as military offensives mounted in Lanao del Sur.

Planet Venus opposes Uranus while Mercury makes an awkward, 150-degree tie to Neptune. Mercury and Venus keep upsetting the status quo because they are close together in the sky and they are making the same contacts with Uranus and Neptune, day after day for the time being. They will continue this unifying and yet often frustrating dance into the first two weeks of September when they will join forces with Mars -- the red planet already establishing itself in partner-oriented Libra.

Olympic host city Beijing is sunny and clear on the 16th day of the Games, with temperatures expected to rise for a broiling midday men's football final between defending champions Argentina and Nigeria.

Another young girl in Kenya is undergoing intentional clitorindectomy.

What is the connection? What is my point? I don’t know. Or maybe that is the point. A lot is happening around the universe right now without apparent reason.

And oh, today is my birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!