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UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN UNEXPECTED PLACES
Daddy catches a boy!
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
"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
My Bluestocking
- Christ the Lord by Anne Rice
- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
- Heaven by Randy Alcorn
- Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory
- The Next Level by David Gregory
- The Shack by William P Young
- A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken
- The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
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
More Unexpected Pleasures
Edith and Marie (GiGi and Grammarie)
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