LETTER from the EDITOR
-PATRICIA VACCARINO-
Dear Friends and Colleagues: Greetings! Late last night I watched two ferries passing each other on the Puget Sound. Headed in opposite directions, the people on one ferry had no opportunity for a chance encounter with the people on the other ferry, at least not at that instant. Ships passing in the night? None of us can truly predict who we will have the opportunity to meet in our lifetime. Nor do we have the ability to control events and circumstances that will alter the course of our lives.
Destiny is a concept that is arguably up for grabs. Some of us believe who we are is what we were destined to become all along. I don’t know if destiny is indeed the true outcome of becoming our true selves. I am only certain of one thing: we have no control over the cards we are dealt; we can only control how we play the cards from the deck we’ve been given.
When I think of destiny, I often think of Christine McAuliffe, the high school teacher from New Hampshire who was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I remember seeing news clips of her face just moments before she boarded the shuttle. Her face was full of joy and anticipation; she looked thrilled to be on the verge of going into space! I often wonder if she had some sense of foreboding about the trip she was about to take, or if somehow she knew that was her destiny.
In the September issue of the Connector, we explore a few stories, business-oriented, some are personal and some are spiritual, looking at the many ways we view destiny. My own story Destiny –without an e describes a few early childhood experiences that led to how I became a writer.