serendipity

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

I love serendipity. Even the sound of the word is beautiful.

I'm not a hoarder, by any means, but I do save a lot of stuff. Sometimes, often times, I don't know why I hold on to something, but it usually doesn't matter.  I know I can count on serendipity. I know things will happen when its time, and some of the things I save aren't ready. Yet.
Like the collar of one of my deceased cats that I saved and saved, and took with me as I moved from place to place. One day, the request came in, the one for me to make a shrine for a Day of the Dead art project. And I made a shrine to my cat, and the collar was the perfect final addition.

Sometimes common sense gets in the way of the gut feeling and I get rid of things I shouldn't. Like all of those colorful and so cool Esprit catalogs from the early 1980s. Remember those? I do, too clearly, as I regret throwing them out.

Similarly, I started saving quotes, famous and infamous, words I wanted to remember, when I was in my early 20s, in college. Why? Who knows.  I never questioned the reason, just knew I needed to start writing them down. Soon I filled my first notebook with quotes. It wasn't long until I filled a second notebook.  Now I am in the middle of my fourth. And a while back I started using old photos from my grandmother, to make greeting cards. Then I started adding quotes to them. I knew just where to find my inspiration. It's been a pleasant stroll down memory lane as I have reread  these sayings, remembering where I was and the occasion for the quote.
Serendipity.