Quirky thoughts from an old man.
“Be on the lookout for serendipitous moments.” Obligations, commitments, fears and inertia all combine to make us miss the serendipity that surrounds us. Backyard Scuba is a method to surreptitiously discover serendipity. This display of liquor bottles is a joy to behold. It can be seen at The White Chocolate Grill in Scottsdale AZ.
You can’t plan for serendipity But you can leave space for it. This is another of a continuing series of posts about serendipity. Simon and Serendipity are alliterative and I should be able to make a nice motto out of them but the only one I’ve come up with so far is “Simon Seeks Serendipity.” …
Serendipity Noun: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Example: If you want to experience serendipity go small and get off the tourist track. My goal when we travel is to have moments of serendipity. I have mentioned serendipity in many posts over the 20 years I’ve been …
April 2019 serendipity number one. Visiting the Rose Garden at the Huntington Library at the peak of the first bloom. April 2019 serendipity number two. Antelope Canyon, Page, AZ at noon. It is hot, crowded, expensive and totally worth it.
When we were in Carmel at the end of our Paso Robles trip we serendipitously ran into the McDaniels our neighbors from 25 years ago. We had dinner the next night and caught up on what our children were up to. It was very nice and very unexpected. I love to travel. Both of …
These purple flowers were growing in the flood control, debris basin in Eaton Canyon. I went home and got my camera to take this photo. An Unexpected Visual Delight
Tomorrow we leave on our first ever ocean cruise on a large cruise ship. I have always opposed cruises because in my uninformed opinion they were too organized and regimented. Too focused on comfort and too large to let opportunities for serendipity appear. I hope I’m wrong. Historically this old saw was my go to …
“I worked hard and I’ve got some talent, but there are a lot of hard-working, talented people out there. There was an element of chance to it, this element of serendipity.” Barak Obama Quoted in Thanks a Thousand by A.J. Jacobs
ASG is an acronym for an Arbitrary Stupid Goal just like in the eponymous book by Tamara Shopsin. I am trying out the concept because I think it does lead to opportunities for serendipity. In this case the ASG is searching for Saguaro Cacti that have branches on branches on branches. The one pictured above …
On Friday night November 1 I went down to ASU to see the reopening of the Imagined Borders map exhibit at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. It was nice to see many old friends and old maps again. I was asked to make a few remarks about the exhibition which is …