When you were a child, did you ever lose a ball over the fence, a Frisbee onto the roof or a kite into a tree? It’s hard not to panic when something you care about suddenly slips out of sight. Sometimes we managed to get those beloved playthings back, and sometimes we didn’t. But not too infrequently, when you went looking for the item that escaped, you would find something else entirely, something you thought was gone forever, or that you had completely forgotten about.
What have you found when you were looking for something else?
As I am trying to restore more order to the contents in my dwelling, I, with the aid of someone who is willing to ask me the hard questions such as “Do you really want to keep this?” or “why not throw this thing away?”, am finding forgotten treasures in the midst of the mundane. In later years when I visited friends in Peru where I had worked as a Peace Corps person in the 60s. I bought a quantity of lovely handmade jewelry in the market in Arequipa. Recently here at home, I found the box in which they had been stored. My intent was to sell them for donations to those who made them. It is far too late to carry out that project now but I will find persons here who want them and will make a donation so that I can contribute it to help out some people in Peru.