Where Butterflies Wander

by Suzanne Redfearn

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu

It’s the thing about being a twin. It’s never one or the other but instead two parts of a whole, like one of those yin-yang symbols—black with white and white with black—alike and together, but the two sides not the same.

Think on a problem long enough, and you might not find the answer, but at least you’ll know the question.

It’s the beautiful thing about gifts, the feelings they carry within them.

happiness shouldn’t need to be chased. It’s with you all the time, wherever you choose to look.

What will be will be, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

But some battles are so worthy, it’s glorious even to fail.”

“There’s nothing you can do about what’s done, so you might as well spend your energy on what’s still possible.”

Edward Lorenz’s butterfly effect. Lorenz’s theory was that a small change is capable of causing very large consequences. A speck of dirt in an assembly line in China causes a pinprick hole in the seam of an arm floatie. A little girl drowns in a pool in Connecticut. A family is destroyed. A New Hampshire woman’s world is decimated. All for a speck of dirt on the other side of the world.