I am a fan of Jung, so I like the idea of synchronicity -- meaningful coincidences as oppose to random events.
Which is why I suppose today strikes me as a synchronicity, rather than a coincidence.
Today is the birthday of he who left me, and the anniversary of the death of my father.
Two of the men I love most in the world (the only other being my son), and on this day one of them came into the world, and one of them left it.
Coincidence?
I think not.