Santa Barbara Synchronicity

The family discovers Sansum Diabetes Clinic after the fact.

By Indy Staff October 5, 2015

4 min read

Santa Barbara Synchronicity — Dr. Jordan Pinkser, of the Sansum Diabetes Center, is involved in the development of an artificial pancreas.

If I’m reading the signs correctly, there should be a snare drum beside you. Please take a moment to play a paradiddle. You may now proceed.

I’ve been reading the autobiography of Bill Kreutzmann, drummer for the Grateful Dead, in which he frequently comments on all the synchronicity on the West Coast. For instance, they were once playing “Fire on the Mountain” about 50 miles from Mt. St. Helens when it began erupting. That’s some hot, smokin’ synch.

I reflected on this because Santa Barbara feels to me like a city of synchronicity. A Synchroni City. That feeling hit home hard soon after we moved here and discovered the William Sansum Diabetes Center.