Planful Serendipity: Watching the Clouds Break

Fortunate Discoveries by Accident?

Some things seem to just happen to me, and not completely by chance.
(The ultimate optimist maybe...?)

It's Planful Serendipity. Remembering a Chinese proverb on a kate & campbell greeting card, each of us is a piece of string and God pulls us together, often from the most unlikeliest places ... and then ties a knot.

In other words, when we let ourselves be open to all possibilities, while preparing ourselves for situations in which we might like to tie a knot, that's practising planful serendipity.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Watching the Clouds Break

6:30AM, Bulabog, Boracay, Philippines:
The rooster caws, and I make an effort to get up earlier than usual to watch the clouds in the sky slowly break …They lighten, before they darken, before they sink, upwards... the slow-moving "backlight" under the clouds is the morning sun "coasting" ... and growing bigger ... I think this is what is called "the break of dawn" ; it happens without a whisper.

The breeze on this side of the island is wonderful, a refreshing change from urban tropical life. Directly below where I am standing, I see blue clouds in the water.

Yesterday we took a short hike up to the neighboring development for a look at their view. My back and shoulders are now sunburned! I forgot sunscreen and how, despite this 'cool' breeze, tanning is effortless here.