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I remembered a story that had captured me:
On 10 January 1992, containers on a Chinese cargo ship called Ever Laurel snapped loose in heavy seas near the International dateline. Over 28,000 plastic bath toys had spilt out into the ocean.

These Floatees started to wash up in California, Vermont, the Alaskan coast, a remote island close to Siberia and so on.

A group of oceanographers picked up the story. Here was the biggest and best experiment to test out and map current tidal flow based on wind dynamics and temperature changes. Twelve years later, with the cooperation of dedicated beachcombers, local newspapers, casual dog walkers and children, reports were still coming in of findings further and further afield. An unlikely accident had subsequently contributed to considerable serious research by oceanographers, even helping to locate people lost at sea.

In early 2011, my casual retelling of this tale slipped into the stream of our conversation concerning Craniosacral CPD and fired our imagination with the immediate relevance of its core idea; Serendipity and Cooperation.

Monica did some research that evening, confirming that amongst the yellow ducks, there were also green frogs, red beavers, and Blue Turtles. It was an easy find.
Elissa