Random Crossing of Paths

 We made a new friend on our walk this morning. Of course I was barely put together, having dared to venture outside before I had washed face, combed hair etc. Normally when we see someone on the path it's a quick hello as we pass, so I don't worry too much about my ratty sweatshirt and dog hair covered yoga pants. But I was at least wearing a bra.

Usually when we walk in the morning it's fairly early since Freddi can't eat her breakfast before going for a car ride. Carsickness is a bitch sometimes. I was tired this morning and the couch was calling my name. So we got a late start, which put us on the trail at a time we don't usually walk. Which allowed us the chance encounter with Augie and his person Janice. Augie is also a Texas rescue!

After the dogs got over their initial excitement of saying hello, we walked along together in the same direction and chatted for a while. It was truly a pleasure. Janice is older, her eldest child being 40 as opposed to mine at 21. And it turns out that we have some mutual acquaintances. It all felt easy and comfortable in a way that some of our encounters with other dogs and their person.....well....just aren't.

And once I dragged Freddi back to the car, which she really did not want to get back into, I thought about how glad I was to have experienced this chance encounter. That if we had stuck to our usual schedule we might not ever have met. And a feeling of goodwill washed over me. Serendipity.