The habit of reading has a profound effect on me.  Constantly indulging in reading over a period
of 50 years has widened my horizon, expanded my mind and changes my life - for the better.

A recent read, on the Internet, on a short article written by Professor AC Grayling, University of
London, brightens my life. Inter-alia he wrote:

"I would wish people to live without superstition, to govern their lives with reason, and to conduct
their relationships on reflective principles about what we owe one another as fellow voyagers
through the human predicament - with kindness and generosity whenever possible, and justice
always. None of this requires religion.  Indeed, once this detritus of our ignorant past has been
cleared away, we might see more clearly the nature of good, and pursue it aright at last."

That exposition, to me, is the serendipity.