happy chance

Jean-Louis Vignes — his last name by happy chance means “vines” — arrived from France’s Bordeaux wine region in about 1831, and his riverside vineyards, where Union Station now stands, produced some hundreds of barrels a year.

Other days, prompts to check out a business are more subtle, a stroke of happy chance.

But the happy chance to show a tranche of Gauguin pieces somehow morphed into an exhibition about his putative “spiritual journey,” which is adumbrated but not proved.

By happy chance, many excellent fossils of Orobates exist, along with trackways — such as footprints — that can be confidently assigned to the creature.

It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.