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D I S K O V E R Y
by Dave Moorman
Serendipity: Finding what was not
sought. That is the byword of my life.
In college, I produced and directed
many (very marginal) television shows
on our campus cable station. Some
times, just rolling a student 16mm
file and playing a Frank Zappa record
proved perfect. Or the high school TV
class ran out of material after eight
minutes of their 30 minute show. But
one of their guests was a jazz dancer,
who marvelously improvised until we
could get a short film loaded and
running.
That was when I serendipitously
discovered that I do not believe in
serendipity. I [depend] on it! Things
have a marvelous way of falling
together. Recently, I have been
contemplating my journey as a pastor
-- mostly from one small town to
another. This is more interesting
because when I was 15 and my family
moved from my (population 1000) home
town, I was glad to be shut of
everything small and rural.
But since my 35th birthday,
"Someone" has conspired to put me in
small towns until I figured it out.
Even Garrison Keillor helped with his
honestly loving sketches of Lake
Wobegone. Now I understand how
villages live -- and why.
Serendipity. Stumbling across C-64
emulators in 1999. Doing eLOADSTAR for
the PC. Then, just as Fender and Judi
were ready to give it up, Sheri and I
suggested we give LOADSTAR a go. And
since then, every issue and every
encounter with LOADSTARites has been
filled to the brim with serendipity.
This issue is just such a fruition
of fortuitousness. I have documented
the accidents and coincidents in the
various documents. And I invite you to
expect serendipity in this issue --
and all you encounter!
DMM