The open door to the deck lets the outdoor breezes in. Which is good because I’m still warm from our walk. Charlie and I decided to go for a walk this morning. I don’t know why I decided to walk outside instead of on the treadmill; the beautiful weather probably had something to do with it. But mostly it just seemed like a good idea to me at the time. And then it seemed like a good idea to invite Charlie along.

He took a few extra minutes changing shirts, and we set out. So when we saw our neighbor – whom I had met but Charlie hadn’t – walking out of HER driveway at the exact moment that we left ours, it felt like a divine appointment.

Meeting neighbors here has been hit and miss. But I met Catherine very soon after we moved in. She’s very friendly – a one-woman welcoming committee. She knows and loves EVERYONE. And she said that she’d been praying when SHE felt like going for a walk.

Today we walked together through the neighborhood. And I wish I could say we talked about something important… something that would obviously be the *reason* [cue trumpets and angels singing] for our meeting. But we didn’t. Instead, we learned a lot about the sailing club, and the nearby federal park, and where she moved here from. Nothing especially special. But it was a good connection time.

When we got back to the house, I told Charlie that this felt a lot like the scene in Harry Potter when Harry drinks the Felix Felicis (good luck) potion and just feels like he should go to Hagrid’s cottage. Makes me wonder if Rowling wrote that scene with divine appointments in mind. And I wonder if we’ll ever know specifically why we walked with Catherine today. Or if we were just supposed to connect more.

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