While Elliott briefly outlines the projected excursion to La Roche, Hastings delightedly ate his omelet, and returned the smiles of encouragement from Cécile and Colette and Jacqueline.
Eggs have of course been a sync theme from time to time, and even omelettes in the form of Hometo Omleto.
In the early afternoon, I was listening to an audio version of the Book of Mormon while I did some housework. I am so familiar with the book that I've passively memorized many parts, and I often find myself reciting along with the audio recording. Today, I heard, "Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be heard of fires," and then joined in for the rest of the clause: "and tempests, and vapors of smoke in foreign lands" (Morm. 8:29). As I finished my housework at that point, I paused the recording there, and that was the last verse I listened to.
Immediately after that, I booted up my computer and had a random whim to check Arts & Letters Daily, of which I have not been a regular reader since its glory days under the late lamented Denis Dutton. The first link under "New Books" had this text (boldface in the original):
An Emerson for our times? Terry Tempest Williams’s “epic documentation of the Glorians” is full of celestial beings and desert miracles... more »
Tempest is a pretty unusual name, and it was one of the words I had just been reciting along with Moroni. I clicked the link and read a couple of paragraphs, but it didn't grab me. I was still curious about the name, though -- besides the tempest link, Terry has also been an important name -- so I looked Terry Tempest Williams up on Wikipedia. I discovered that she (it's a she, unlike Terry the Giant Irishman) is a Mormon -- or a member of the Great and Unabbreviable Church, anyway, albeit a "feminist" one -- which strengthens the sync, given that it was in the Book of Mormon that I had encountered the word tempest. A&L Daily has nothing to do with Mormonism, and the linked article said nothing about Williams's religion.
Note added: The cover of the Williams book linked on A&L Daily has an eclipse in a yellow sky:

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