Strange and Improbable Events

​Sometimes a phrase jumps out at me.  I was reading an essay by Aldous Huxley from 1964, reflecting on the poetics of life. He said that we act out “a series of strange and improbable events”.  It struck me once more, that much of my life has been a series of strange and improbable events. 
 
For example, most of those who taught me at school would have considered it most unlikely, and definitely strange and improbable, that I would have spent most of my working life as a teacher.  However, being a teacher was work that called me and I could not resist its gravitational pull.  
 
As I prepare to facilitate professional formation, time for teachers to reflect on their vocational calling to teach, it occurs to me that “strange and improbable” is more the way of things than we might often expect.