Sparkle of Serendipity Amidst Sorrow: Diamond Unearthed in State Park

A woman found a 3-carat diamond in a state park recently. This happened after a difficult year for her. Read more about this surprising find.

#DiamondFind, #StateParkDiscovery, #UnexpectedJoy, #Gemstone, #Serendipity

https://newsletter.tf/woman-finds-3-carat-diamond-in-state-park/

Woman Finds 3-Carat Diamond in State Park After Hard Year

A woman found a 3-carat diamond in a state park recently. This happened after a difficult year for her. Read more about this surprising find.

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A 3-carat diamond was found in a state park. This is a very large find for a public area.

#DiamondFind, #StateParkDiscovery, #UnexpectedJoy, #Gemstone, #Serendipity
https://newsletter.tf/woman-finds-3-carat-diamond-in-state-park/

Woman Finds 3-Carat Diamond in State Park After Hard Year

A woman found a 3-carat diamond in a state park recently. This happened after a difficult year for her. Read more about this surprising find.

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🥳🎉 Wow, #Bijou64, the accidental hero we never knew we needed! 🎈🎈 A "small jewel" of an encoding that fixes bugs and speeds things up, all while being blissfully unaware of its own brilliance. 🥂 Let's all toast to the team who stumbled into success, proving once again that even in tech, sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. 🍀💡
https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/bijou64/ #accidentalhero #techsuccess #encodingbugfixes #serendipity #toasttothelucky #HackerNews #ngated
bijou64

An accidentally fast variable-length integer encoding

I don't know what to think.

Made a banana cream pie yesterday. 🍌
Without thinking, made the crust in the food processor. Overworked the dough. Thought - it's probably ruined. 😞

Turns out to be banana cream squares in pie form. Very short crust. No where near a flaky crust. But! Delicious, and melts in your mouth. 😋

Might make that mistake again sometime.

#BananaCreamPie #BananaCreamSquares #Serendipity

Time will tell …

Timing is everything, and it can change our lives in the most unexpected ways. From meeting someone new to making a big decision, patience and awareness are key. In today's fast-paced world, it's important to be in touch with our intuition and take breaks to boost our performance.

https://lesliefischman.com/2026/05/12/time-will-tell/

Design events with an overall structure in mind — and where you and the participants are open to the unexpected

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2013/11/when-a-guy-brings-bagpipes-to-your-event

#meetings #EventDesign #impromptu #serendipity #bagpipes #events #eventprofs

Serendipitous light art, by Artemis II

Photo id: ART002-E-15911 (Nikon Z9)

#Artemis #Art #Solareclipse #Artemis2 #Moon #Orion #space #Nikon79 #light #serendipity

Vergiss Plan B für mehr Vertrauen + Commitment + Wirkung

Wer eine Hintertür baut,geht früher oder später durch. Wer meint, einen Plan B zu brauchen, investiert messbar weniger Energie in Plan A. In meiner Erfahrung erzeugt "keinen Plan B zu haben" deutlich mehr Vertrauen – im Team, der Community und vor Allem im Netzwerk, wo es um Authentizität und Glaubwürdigkeit geht. Das ist auch messbar in der Forschung. PlanB ist die Hintertüre, die Vertrauen und Kommitment störterstellt mit KI Es gibt natürlich einen Unterschied zwischen einem […]

https://harald-schirmer.de/2026/05/07/vergiss-plan-b-fuer-mehr-vertrauen-commitment-wirkung/

§16 – Don’t be that guy

This entry is part 28 of 37 in the series Study inspired by Pakour & Art du Déplacement by V. Thibault

Serendipity.

I’ve been working on writing these thoughts for over three years. Without actually checking, I think it was the Fall of 2015 when I sat in Le Jardin Joan d’Arc and read my copy of Thibault’s book in one, all-day sitting. Almost 4 years ago?

I created this particular blank note for Chapter 16 in May of 2016. “16”?

As I’m writing, it is May of 2019. Another, “May”?

About three years ago I started the project which eventually became Movers Mindset. Two years ago the project grew to include a podcast.

This morning, I feel compelled to “finally” get around to writing something for Chapter 16. I open my digital copy, flip to Chapter 16, and I read, “Chris ‘Blane’ Rowat once wrote…”

Care to guess who I am interviewing for the podcast today? Yes, really.

This is sublime.

All those threads woven together lead to this moment of realization at 8:00 in a rented London flat, 6,000km from my home.

Critically, while I’ve known for months the exact date and time of Chris’ interview, I’ve not read Chapter 16 recently enough to have remembered that it starts with his sentiments. If I had, I’d certainly have made some complicated plan to co-publish this writing and the podcast, or something—but this serendipity would not have materialized. Energized by the jolt of adrenaline when I read Chapter 16 this morning, I now feel a renewed belief in the entire Movers Mindset project! (Which is good, because most days there’s more strenuous labor than love in the labor of love.)

But, serendipity and coincidence are bullshit.

It’s just my brain, (yours may be the same,) working its tremendous powers of pattern matching. This morning my mind found a slightly-more-interesting-than-usual pattern and screamed, (ala the old adrenal gland,) that it had found something that demanded much closer attention. I’ve been spurred to carefully read Chapter 16 about five times this morning, to mull over my thoughts, to spend an hour or so writing, and to think of all the people I want to share this story with. I was inspired to create a vision of how the interview will go, new questions have popped into my head, and I’ve thought of a specific person who I now realize I’d forgot for about two years!

I wonder: What would life be like if I simply paid closer attention?

What if—instead of needing a kick in the adrenals to be this motivated—I could begin to intentionally notice things a bit smaller than this morning’s coincidence?

What if!

…and of course, “don’t be that guy.”

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#ChrisRowat #Mindfulness #MoversMindset #Serendipity #VincentThibault
Craig Constantine

Presence, not pursuit.

Craig Constantine
#releaseanniversary #releasedaytwins #summermovies #Serendipity #same-ishplot Man does bad, man goes to prison, man is released, man tries to make good with his life and family, man resists war around him www.sassawards.com #bestperformances #sassawards #moviesky #actorsky 🎥🎬🏆