The Merriam-Webster Dictionary website defines " serendipity" as " luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for" .
She slipped through the gate, out into the field all starred with dandelions, down in the hollow by the brook, then up on the hillside out of sight among the shady trees.
The designers and engineers working on the latest generation of treescrapers have also decided to tackle the issue of embodied carbon and the considerable amounts of energy consumed when manufacturing steel and concrete.
Before Ms Misihairabwi-Mushonga was widowed she and her late husband owned three houses, including one in the leafy suburb of Mt Pleasant in the north of Harare.
He teaches undergraduate psychology and neuro-science classes, conducts research into how the brain functions, and holds regular office hours on the leafy campus of Pomona College in Southern California.
So into the house she ran to find her Aunt Annie, and ask her leave to go over on the shady hillside, across the brook, where the wild flowers grew thickest.