No doubt the universe is unfolding as it should

A favorite of mine sprang into my head a few days ago: the Desiderata. Please check it out: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~gongsu/desiderata_textonly.html

Also this word was passed onto me by a friend:

tardigrade \TAHR-di-greyd\, adjective:

1. Slow in pace or movement.
2. Belonging or pertaining to the phylum Tardigrada.

noun:
1. Also called bear animalcule, water bear. Any microscopic, chiefly herbivorous invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, living in water, on mosses, lichens, etc.

The days were long and boring as we walked a continuous almost tardigrade pace around several large buildings, again with empty carbines.
-- Stafford O. Chenevert, Amber Waves of Grain

…the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
-- George Eliot, Romola

He rolls tardigrade, to a stop on a shoulder, stooped in sand, in its pretense as it doesn't exist and there's only desert…
-- Joshua Cohen, Witz

Related to the common word tardy, tardigrade comes from the Latin word tardigradus meaning "slow-paced."

As life is slower in Cambodia and as a PCV, it's interesting to consider the negative connotations of the word "tardy" and compare it to the concept of "slow-paced". When I arrived tardy to a class I was observing today, it was due to rain which slows things down here. If I had done so in America, I would have to apologize profusely and make an excuse. It just goes without saying here, which I think will be sometimes a bit liberating and simultaneously frustrating.