ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the meanings and the ramifications of living the ethnographic mystery in the face of trauma. It suggests the possibility of rising to engage in a courageous dance with the storied, autoethnographic life, thus carrying our core life stories into the center-space of our most significant relationships. Accidental ethnography, coupled with the courage to connect, then, becomes a primary means of dialogic living that can illuminate relational life in ways that other methodologies, practices, and actions cannot. The chapter focuses on the organic process of writing accidental (auto)ethnography as a way of living. It argues that pattern, and, through a series of takes, attempt to put some glue to own life story as a way to get inside this emerging idea of accidental ethnography, from a new angle. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
