Three things from DAH.

DAH is me, David Anthony Hance. I pen, promote, and make change (not the coin kind). 

First up this week, Trendspotting …  
John Naisbitt died last month (April 2021). He was a futurist and author of the best seller Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1982). Merriam-Webster defines futurist as "one who studies and predicts the future especially on the basis of current trends." Megatrends first introduced me to the concept of trendspotting. I already understood what trends were, but I hadn't really thought about predicting the future based upon current trends. It's an imperfect practice, but pleasing when predictions prove out. Imagining every little thing to be on a trending continuum is soothing, easier to accept than complete randomness.
Trendspotting Is How Companies Today Stay Relevant

Second up this week, Tickety-boo …  
It happened two days ago. It's not often that I stumble upon the Jazz Age term "tickety-boo" but I know what it means. Everything is just fine, it's tickety-boo. It always calls to my mind the song Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Not a Jazz Age tune, but there's probably a trend to spot connecting it somehow. For the way I feel lately, tickety-boo is just the ticket. It sounds silly and fun. I will seek out tickety-boo-ness wherever it lurks. I will work to understand the inward and outward characteristics of tickety-boo so that I can replicate them wherever and whenever needed. This week is already looking up!
Fraser’s Phrases: Tickety Boo (BBC America Anglophenia)

Third up this week, Typicity …  
"This doesn't taste like Amador Zinfandel! It lacks typicity." I don't think the term typicity is used with anything except wine. A wine with proper, accepted attributes for it's type (of varietal or designated style or appellation or all of those) displays typicity. It's a useful concept that I apply beyond the world of wine (as I practice a gently extrapolatory sort of humpty-dumptying). Consider something, anything. Is it typical of its type? Or is it rebelling against the strictures of typicity, striving to be something new? Many may admire the rebel, but finding that your rebel builder has constructed your new home with no front door could have you longing for common home-design typicity. The trappings of typicity help us make sense of the world around us. Expectation can be calming. There's a trendline between prototypical and atypical (unique). For most of us there's a tickety-boo spot on that continuum. We won't all have the same tickety-boo spot, and that spot may change for us over time. But isn't it nice when something just feels right?
The Ticklish Topic of Typicity (in wine)

And a bit more ... 

Everything Is Going To Be All Right
by Derek Mahon

How should I not be glad to contemplate 
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window 
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? 
There will be dying, there will be dying, 
but there is no need to go into that. 
The lines flow from the hand unbidden 
and the hidden source is the watchful heart. 
The sun rises in spite of everything 
and the far cities are beautiful and bright. 
I lie here in a riot of sunlight 
watching the day break and the clouds flying. 
Everything is going to be all right. 

And that's all for this week.
From Mary Oliver’s poem "Sometimes" …  

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it. 

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