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Closeup of a Wallon church headstone - time flies, a compass with fish and an anchor, and a skull (in profile) and crossbones.
Nov. 2, 2007 Wallon Church grounds Magdeburg, Germany
Closeup of an orenberg lace project I did years ago. Pattern is Orenberg Lace Triangle by Galina Khmeleva
Kazuki - Leekeworld D Chouette.
Faceup: myself, Eyes: Glib acrylics, Wig: For my Doll - Dream Cacao, Outfit: Volks Dollpa 21 limited set.
Had to make costumes for my boys. This is the 1st time I've used a sewing machine since losing my eyesight. Actually did pretty good!
The word [serendipity] was coined by that curious man Sir Horace Walpole, known today (if at all) as one of the founders of the "Gothic" tale of suspense and terror, but more famously in his own time as an especially elegant and proficient writer of letters. In a 1754 letter to a friend he describes his discovery of some curious Venetian coat of arms and pauses to say that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity." And then he explains this "very expressive word" of his own invention: "I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip'"--Serendip being an old name for Sri Lanka: "as their Highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of... (for you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description)." The finding of what one is not looking for will be the element of the letter most obviously relevant to what I've been saying so far; but equally important is the phrase "by accidents and sagacity," or, as Walpole puts it later in the same letter, "accidental sagacity."
From The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs.
Sorry- a little late on the WIDE-assignment.
As a child i was fighting with a furious swan in the Mediterranean see. I was so scared.
This time i survived thx. to my lenshood:-))