SERENDIPITY ON THE HILL: From Mama's bedroom with the bookshelves into her sitting room, she has created her own mini-Blickling Hall. Note Queen Victoria.

Monday, February 25, 2008

From Mama's bedroom with the bookshelves into her sitting room, she has created her own mini-Blickling Hall. Note Queen Victoria.

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SERNDIPITY ON THE HILL

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator), an Englishman then living in Florence. The letter read,
"It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right—now do you understand serendipity? One of the most remarkable instances of this accidental sagacity (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury, who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's, found out the marriage of the Duke of York and Mrs. Hyde, by the respect with which her mother treated her at table." Wikipedia

I'm grateful for:

power naps
staying in my pajamas all day
an unplanned day off from work
unexpected visitors at the door
fresh flowers from my own yard
new fallen snow
the smell of fresh coffee
walking in the woods
front porch light on
my kids just dropping in
the view out my front window
classic italian subs
straw purses
telephone calls from my siblings
3 day weekends
the book Heaven
St Augustine, Florida
turtleneck shirts
Narnia
warm showers
finishing med pass
changing seasons
tatamis and shojis
worshipping God
reading my kids poetry
being on the road again
teaching kids the Bible
learning Hebrew
Whoppers Malted Milk Balls
the smell of Vanilla
Blue Grass Music
Sleep
Rocking Chairs
the sound of Grandchildren
Ice Cream
Yellow

SERENDIPITY ON THE HILL

Monday, February 25, 2008

From Mama's bedroom with the bookshelves into her sitting room, she has created her own mini-Blickling Hall. Note Queen Victoria.

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