Back before the days of Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (Visual-Spatial, Bodily-kinesthetic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Linguistic, Logical -Mathematical), student learning styles were classified as either “Concrete Sequential” (the math/science types) or “Abstract Random” (the art types). A few years back, I started referring to myself as “Random Sequential” meaning that I have a tendency to take random pieces of information and attempt to make sense out of them, my very own learning style!
Well, that was in full operation recently though I had nothing to do with the “random sequencing” that was occurring. It provided the unexpected means to an end.
1983 Datsun Maxima
My son had posted on FaceBook about missing our 1983 Maxima and uploaded a generic photo. While our family photographs are far from organized, there are a number of albums, with 1983 and beyond being one of them. I headed right to the book and found a photo of our car.
However, one I wanted to find of him around age 6 standing up through the moon-roof was not to be found. I uploaded the actual photo and sent the rest of the ones I found to the family. My husband came home and proceeded to look through the boxes and boxes of loose photographs for that same photo and was as unsuccessful as I was.
Fast forward a couple of days while I was working on my website for my new job. Since I am returning to my roots of teaching high school business, I thought it might be kind of nice to show a photo of me back in my first teaching job along with one of the school that had a population of probably 2000 along with a current photo of me and one of my new school with a population of about 300. Where was that early photo to be found? A few years back I had had a print made from a yearbook picture and put it “somewhere.”
I mentioned to my husband what I would like to do to which he replied, “I just saw it in one of the boxes I was looking through,” walked over to the cabinet and handed me the photo I needed. Check out the new site.
Coincidence, Divine intervention, great minds working in concordance, alignment of the planets, all things working together for good, my Creator knowing what I needed before I did –- I don’t know – but a bunch of appearingly random acts produced a sequence of events that brought me to an effective conclusion.
