Sometimes bad things happen.

Paintings are ruined.  People behave selfishly.  Luggage is lost.These are the times when it's most valuable to get the kind of message I got yesterday.  I'm heading to London for 3 months (in a week!) and intend to do a lot of side trips while I'm there.  My coworker wrote:If anyone can find themselves on a midnight train in Morocco speeding toward an obscure music festival in the desert, it'd be you.  If anyone could find themselves dipping toes in the Black Sea from a fisherman's boat, it'd be you.  If ANYONE could find themselves in the capital of a country in the middle of a velvet revolution, it'd be you.  Go forth and ADVENTURE!Thanks, Whitney, for the reminder.  I'm putting those three things on my list for the coming months!AND, just now, as I was about to post this, my phone rang--the airline found my luggage. :)