A look at how I’ve used Applied Serendipity in my own life lately:

CARE: Planted an orchard this year for Earth Day of pears (Summercrisp, Flemish Beauty, Anjou); apples (Jonathan, Winecrisp, Gala, Red Delicious, Empire), and cherries (Bing, Lapin). Right now they’re in early flowering stage - enough buds to suggest we may have a productive crop in our first year if all goes well.

PREPARE: The last two autumns, we have planted more than 1,500 bulbs in our rewilded garden and they’re starting to multiply and pop. Here’s a patch of Fritillaria Meleagris, this beautiful bell-shaped checkered flower, one of the featured flowers in Vita Sackville West’s classic book Some Flowers.

SHARE: Greg and I hosted an Earth Day fundraiser for The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens in our forest. Thank you to all who came for your generosity and for celebrating nature together. We’ll be hosting some interesting events here throughout the summer and fall. Fun and rewarding to be back in the swing of entertaining and to create new ways of gathering.

AWARE: Excited for my husband Greg’s new venture about his passion for sports literature. Check it out here: sportsliterate.com

DARE: Took the next step with my consulting and advising and formed an LLC. Daring to take my business to the next stage of growth.