Okay–who isn’t? Everyone loses keys and glasses and usually finds them the same day although last week my best glasses were missing for five days and I thought gone forever. Now I’ve lost a file of reports for our business and I need them to fill out the current report so it conforms with the old. Therefore, I”m going through piles of paper and throwing out stuff we no longer, I hope, need. This is good–throwing out I mean—or bad, if I throw out the wrong items.
Then there’s my passport. I have two old ones of my husband’s and none of mine. I have the niggling feeling I threw out my old and new one while meaning to throw out both of our old ones. If I find it I can get a new passport fast and it just makes me crazy not to have it. This is ridiculous because I have no plan to go abroad. Still, I’d like to be able to go if suddenly I have a mind to see my baby granddaughter who is lost in Russia albeit in the good care of my son and his wife.
My Master Card went missing in the spring and I later discovered it had been stolen by someone with a passport. I know because he/she charged over $6,000 worth of plane tickets while in France and Italy. Thus my little card took a surprising trip from a plain old CVS in Connecticut across the ocean before I even knew it was gone. I’m sorry to say its replacement is presently missing although since nothing has been charged on it for several weeks I’ll bet it’s lurking about somewhere.
I have also lost some things of value and just hope they are just missing. I look and look and wake up at night wondering where they are. The good thing about it is I’m of an age when I can’t always remember what I’ve lost meaning I don’t always wake up at night wondering. Also I sometimes find things I didn’t know I owned. I found a jacket recently I don’t remember buying or receiving as a gift. I like it. Maybe it’s a replacement for something I don’t remember I lost.
Never mind. How to Find Lost Objects is on the way from amazon.com. Perhaps it contains the telephone number of a talented psychic or Red Lantern who regularly visited The Land of the Lost with Isabel and Billy in my radio-filled childhood. He always found everything.
Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, another radio pal, was also a whiz in the finding arena although as far as I know I haven’t yet lost any persons so I won’t try to trace him. I realized years later the theme-song for his program was Someday I’ll Find You. I think I’ll adopt it. Dum dum de dum dum, dum dum de dum dum.
Tra-la. Positive expectation is what it’s all about.
