Saturday, November 12

Swerve, in Latin, clinamen, means an unexpected, unpredictable movement of matter.

Harvard professor, Renaissance scholar and writer, Stephen Greenblatt in his new book, The Swerve, How the World Became Modern, writes that the rediscovery in 1417 of a poem written a thousand years earlier by the Roman Lucretius was such a swerve. 

We can probably think of other examples of things going from near oblivion to near universal awareness.  

In our own lives we can probably think of examples of a remarkable coincidence or chance meeting or undertaking that changed the trajectory of our lives.

Keep swerving.