Law of attraction

Having recently (for the first time) stumbled across a description of Perilla, I have been hungrily pursuing all the information I could find about this amazing plant. 

 After much deliberation, I placed an order for seeds to  grow Red and Green Perilla frutescans, presuming from the photo that this is japonica rather than crispa, but who knows?  There is much conflicting information about this plant.

The very next day without my having mentioned it, a good friend gave me a live green perilla plant.  I was floored by the synchronicity, but should not have been, as we tend to manifest what we strongly believe in.