UNTANGLING

The other evening I found that my gold necklace had developed a twist. I removed the chain from my neck, and upon closer inspection realized that somehow one end had apparently threaded through an open gold link. I could nor for the life of me figure out how this happened. So, taking the necklace off, I vowed to try to fix the tangle the next morning.

Being swamped lately, it took me two days to get back to this project. A need for a sanity break from politics, and work, inspired the moment. I picked up the chain, and tried, for a full five minutes, to rethread it, but no amount 

of twisting or turning would allow me to push the end back through the opening it had mys- teriously wandered through to make its conspicuous lump. Frustrated, and not willing to force the chain for fear of damaging it, I put the necklace down by the door. I'll bring it to a jeweler, I thought.

Fast forward to this morning. An agreement I'd been working on for a new project had a couple of deal points I was having a bit of trouble nailing down. I'd emailed the draft to the lawyer involved. A couple of days ago... In keeping with our times, I left him a voicemail and email yesterday with the questions, asking if we could discuss "in the soon."

This morning he called at around 10. We hashed out everything, and it all seemed to fall into place. For some reason I went to the door. And picked up the necklace. What you see in the picture is how it appeared.

I've had some wonderful adventures with serendipity, and physical changes in objects for no standard reason (looking at a previously non-working appliance – no, not a microwave – thinking "Work!" and having it suddenly perform perfectly, for example).

But a sudden untanglement, with no physical cause, this is new.

I love it!