SleepingOrchid

Rainbow=SERENDIPITY “Greatest good luck?”

Rainbows have vast cultural, religious, and psychological implications. They announce that the storm is past and offer a gateway to somewhere obviously special, right up there in the sky, a glittering gateway beckoning with every color in the spectrum. “There’s a land that I dream of,” sang Judy Garland yearningly and we sang and yearned right along with her. Rainbows have their head in the heavens and their feet lost somewhere on earth; sheltering a “pot of gold” or so they say. But if you soar through obviously you will have to leave the gold behind. Rainbows are clearly magic, yet everyone, even skeptics, even the unimaginative, can see one. Our Rainbow is a gateway to whatever we desire, if we just could figure out what it was but there’s nothing earthly about it. It’s transcendent. We’re a little afraid of it. We’re not ready for it YET. But we’re so, so glad it’s there.

Serendipity: What role do luck and chance play in our lives? We are all familiar with the phrase, “The harder I work the luckier I get.” But how about chance? Chance seems to determine who will be our mate, for one thing! True, we often strategize about putting ourselves in the “right place at the right time” and we want the same thing for our kids, otherwise there wouldn’t be this deadly serious skirmishing over “the right pre-school.” We are very aware of “unlucky accidents” and try to prevent those as best with can with a seatbelt and a multi-vitamin; even those of us who smoke and gamble know that much. Sometimes we don’t value “good luck”, especially if it’s completely unexpected. Do we feel it’s “undeserved?” If we have children who sleep easily or get good grades do we just take that for granted while focusing on ”what’s wrong?” How about our own health and good looks – not to mention the love we feel around us — are those things only “treasured” when they’re gone? I think of the woman who said she doesn’t focus on whether a glass is half empty or half full but instead on who’s going to drink it and whether she will get any?

We need more than beauty, more than strategy, more than alliances. We need Good Luck. Serendipity is Chance. What are the odds you would walk into that grocery store, check a disused social media account, return an item, misdial a call? Our whole lives seem to be comprised of Lucky Accidents and Near Misses. Yes we try to learn from them, but we are spooked as well. It’s enough to make a person superstitious, because, How can you engineer good luck? Simple. “The harder I work the luckier I get.” Be there. When you’re looking for a soulmate it’s like looking for a job – it helps if everybody knows about it. Let’s widen our opportunity to Get Lucky.

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You tend my body so well you can’t
Surprise me anymore
You’re the surprise and
I’m used to you
Folding back my lettuce leaves with your tongue
Coaxing the reluctant caterpillar
While I lie awake giddy with
Self preservation until
The final firecracker moment
When you release and flourish
The fragrant butterfly