A special word for today
Serendipity – the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.
The word derives from an old Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, (Serendip is the Persian name for Sri Lanka,) and was coined by Horace Walpole on January 28, 1754 in a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann (not the same man as the famed American educator).
This should not be confused with Synchronicity – which is an album by the Police (but that’s another story).
The Haus of Dcaligari 