Category: Serendipity

Posted on

Jerusalema Dance Challenge

Danger Will Robinson Danger… I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole on this one. Just a word to the wise.

Okay, I am a Johnny-come-lately to this global phenomena, but here I am. This really put a smile on my face, and a gladness in my heart.  It became meditative after a while.  For me it was a reminder that we are all just one people… perhaps it is time we started acting that way.

If you have some time, put “jerusalema dance challenge”  into your YouTube search box.  While I  didn’t understand the language they were singing, the music is beautiful.  The original language is isiZulu, a language out of South Africa. As my dive into the rabbit hole deepened, I found versions in a couple of other languages.

Here is a link to the English translation of Jerusalema from isiZulu

What really interested me was the dance challenges from around the world.  I am including a video that compiled many of these dances.  However, if you do the YouTube search, the results will have you scrolling for pages… which I did.

Before you watch the mix of dance challenges from around the world here is a link to the official music video of the song: Master KG – Jerusalema [Feat. Nomcebo] (Official Music Video) As I re-watched this video it strikes me it has a subtle anti-drug message.

How South Africa’s ‘Jerusalema’ Became a Global Hit Without Ever Having to Be Translated

I apologize if you too get lost in this technological rabbit warren, I just really enjoyed it.

And so it goes.

Posted on

Joy on a spring day

At Creve Coeur Lake Park where I ride my bicycle occasionally, they rent quadricycles. This Saturday, on the other side of the lake from the rental shack, I encountered one of these 4 wheeled, multi-passenger surreys with the fringe on top .

In the front seat were two 50ish, slightly overweight women, looking somewhat exhausted as they had just come up a steep incline.  In the back seat, not pedaling, was another women.  She appeared to be in her late 80s, and she was leaning over with her head between the heads of the women in the front seat.  The older woman was laughing loudly and joyfully with a look of bliss on her face.  Obviously being out on a beautiful spring day with these two women was bringing her much delight, despite the snail pace of their vehicle. She was so totally in the moment that she unknowingly shared her joy with me. What a nice, serendipitous gift on a Saturday morning.

Joy is where you find it.

Be well.

Posted on

Serendipity

Robin and I were in St. Charles visiting some friends.  After we crossed the Missouri River, we took the back way home.  We drove down River Valley Drive and eventually turned up the steep hill that is Hog Hollow Drive.  About half up we came across this.  For wild turkeys they were not the least skittish.

Serendipity

Keep well.