Somewhere Over The You Know What

       Pre-dawn this morning, I noticed a subtle pink and purple glow in the east. It was going to be a colorful sunrise. So I hopped on my bike and rode out to the higher ground of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir to put myself in a better position to snap some shots.
       As I’m approaching the hill to get to my vantage point, I look up and see this most magnificent rainbow stretching across the whole sky. It literally froze me in my tracks, and I practically fell off my bike, jamming the brakes and skidding on the grass. I would have gladly suffered a few bloody scrapes and contusions. Because this was spectacular.
       It occurred to me how often we go looking for something, or go after something, and come across something different than we intended. And that whatever we come across while going after something else turns out to be just as, or even more incredible for us than what we were going after.
       In my opinion, the best scenario is when we get both what we initially intended and that big extra something else that we ran into on the way. The old David Lee Roth adage, “My life is about  ‘In Addition To’, not ‘Instead Of’ “.
       May I always be open and willing enough to see more.

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