attracting reality and attracting circumstances

From a discussion on my Facebook page:
Anne Shuman Urban
"Re LOA [Law of Attraction] and unpleasant events... I was at a weekend workshop with Neale Donald Walsch. A woman there said her husband had been killed in a freak accident, and her friends kept asking her how she attracted that. NDW responded, "next time they ask that, punch 'em in the nose and ask how they attracted that."

He went on to distinguish between attracting reality and attracting circumstances. We each create our own reality based on perceptions; circumstances are co-created with many other human beings, all exercising their free will.

How we choose to view/experience it is self-created, but the circumstances are not. It seemed a good, solid distinction to make."