Synchromysticism

" Synchromysticism:
The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

- Jake Kotze

December 28, 2022

Starbuck/s, Liz Fraser and The Secret Sun? 🌊🌞

I couldn't help thinking of my old synching ship-mate Chris Knowles the author of 'The Secret Sun' blog and his somewhat unhealthy, but amusing (to me anyway) obsession with Starbucks, the siren and Liz Fraser, while I read and listen to 'Moby Dick'.
Starbucks was founded by business partners Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker who first met as students at the University of San FranciscoThe trio were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peet
Bowker recalls that a business partner of his, Terry Heckler, thought words beginning with the letters "st" were powerful, leading the founders to create a list of words beginning with "st", hoping to find a brand name. They chose "Starbo", a mining town in the Cascade Range and from there, the group remembered "Starbuck", the name of the chief mate in the book Moby-Dick. Bowker said, "Moby-Dick didn't have anything to do with Starbucks directly; it was only coincidental that the sound seemed to make sense.""
Elizabeth Fraser (born 29 August 1963)
In July 2000, the first location in Australia opened in Sydney. After a massive downturn in 2008, the remaining Australian Starbucks stores were sold to the Withers family in 2014, with the company planning a more restrained expansion.
As of November 2022, there are 59 Starbucks stores in Australia; 23 in New South Wales, 19 in Queensland and 18 in Victoria. These stores are spread out across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and Ballarat. Before the mass-closure of 61 of their 85 stores in 2008, there were also stores in Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and Wollongong. However, there are plans to open a restaurant in Toowoomba.
I guess the Starbuck's chain always had Buckley's chance of staying afloat in Australia anyway ... unlike 'Avatar: The Way of Water' did, hey Chris?-)
42?
42 Minutes of October 18, 2011?
Time to Get Ready for 2023?πŸ‘½πŸ₯³

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