Serendipity

Tonight we're going to discuss the word serendipity, according to Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (note to self, buy an up-to-date dictionary), serendipity is "the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for".
When we were homeschooling this used to happen all the time. We'd be working on a unit and "discover" something that had been right around the corner all the time, and we'd never noticed it. Sometimes I wondered if luck, or something had caused someone to mention a book, magazine, museum exhibit or something else that just happened to be related to what we were working on; or maybe we were just more likely to notice the item because it's what we were studying.
What does this have to do with my crocheting? Well today I was reading blogs that I read regularly, and one directed me so several of the author's favorite blogs. Lo and behold, I found that I was reading the blog of the man who designed the Patch House edging. Check out The Panopticon on blogspot.com - I'd give you the link, but they still haven't reviewed this blog and declared that I'm not some program that's creating a "spam blog". Now I'm going back to finish reading, and find out about Amy, who's allergic to wool.