Serendipity

Encountering joy is like finding the crappie swimming under the ice in the frozen pond. I'm mostly oblivious to it during this season of life. It's an abstract concept. Unless I chip, chip, chip away at the ice with tears, coffee, therapy, love, friends, physical movement, sunshine, journaling, candles, heat... and then, after twelve inches and aching arms a well of icy cold water rushes up through the hole. And if I'm patient, and if I have the right tools or equipment, I can hook a bright, glimmering fish and hold it in my hands for a few moments before letting it go.

"What matters is not just chance, but how people recognize this opportunity and then how they act on that opportunity.... There is actually an element of human agency in it." Sandra Erdelez