More serious matters

serendipity |ˌserənˈdipitē|

Onto more serious matters - why I like the word serendipity so much:  First of all the sound of it.  It is one of those perfectly melodious words that just simply sounds lovely (like melodious!)  Each syllable rising and falling like a roller coaster ride.

Secondly the meaning.  It seems hard to beat way the word sounds - but I have to say the meaning of the word takes the cake!  

According to Merriam-Webster it means: 

the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.  

Or the New Oxford American Dictionary’s version: 

the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

  Kind of like the way my mother, who decided to move our family out of Brooklyn, into the countryside of Connecticut, found our house.  She happened to drive from Bethel northward.  Having no real destination, she decided to explore the area.  She drove through New Milford and Washington, following the map - taking one random road after another, hoping to weave her way back.  She found herself in Roxbury (which is hard to get to by accident!) and happened to pass a beautiful 100 year old farm house.  My mother stopped to admire it - or rather to fall in love with it!  It was only after she decided to continue her journey that she saw the For Sale sign!  There it was - serendipity!  She bought it, we moved, and that is where so much of our family history happened.

My long winded point is that I hope this blog page will be a little like my mother’s exploratory drive.  Finding things as we go; new ideas, new lessons, new sights, new connections.  I hope I can share some thoughts that ring true for you - and that in turn you will open new doors and bring me into new worlds that I had not expected to find: finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.  

So, may we ‘Serendipity’ together!