Unexpected serendipity

Serendipity is the gift for finding valuable or agreeable things you weren’t looking for.

Example: You pull a tee shirt out of your dresser drawer that you haven’t worn for awhile and when you unfold it to put it on, out drops a sock that is the mate to the one that has been languishing in your sock drawer since God knows when.

But I have a better example I will share with you so you will realize it was serendipitous that you read this column this day.

Like many of you, I expect, I deplore the day the Seattle Times decided to quit running the weeklong television schedule as did my local newspa...