Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Serendipity

Surprise! Desirable discoveries happened upon by chance, the accident of finding something good or useful while not specifically searching for it. The word is derived from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka (aka Ceylon), from Arabic Sarandib, which was adopted from Tamil “Seren deevu” or originally from Sanskrit Suvarnadweepa or golden island.

Photograph copyright (c) Trevi Bennett 2012

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