We can add moments of serendipity.
I think my biggest moment of serendipity was just the discovery that I like playing with these old machines and I like sewing too. Woodworking and old woodworking machines is my other hobby. Due to some of the medications I've been on I get too cold in the winters to spend much time in my unheated shop and it's also painful for me to stand for long periods so this was a way to bring my hobbies indoors. Kind of hard to rebuild or run a table saw in the living room but I can get away with a sewing machine.
Rodney