So it was with a measure of surprise to see the report in the BBC that Amy Winehouse’s death was given a “verdict of death by misadventure” so that charges would not be pressed. I got to thinking about the phrase and thought how sad that misadventure would be linked to death. It seems to me like misadventure would be a good thing and something that we should be looking for in our life. I felt the same way when I heard that skylarking would no longer be a cause for dismissal from the navy. If working with an intolerable lack of seriousness is not appropriate in the navy then I don’t know where it would be appropriate. In Max Andersons “High Tor” Mio responds to a request to be serious with the line, “things are serious enough, why set out to make them more so?”
Perhaps skylarking and misadventure are our best responses to the seriousness of this world.
Your moment of Zen.
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