The Key’s not the Key, or is it?


 Wandering through the Vestibule this morning, I came across the key to the old wooden door down in the Caverns below the Catacombs below the Cellar below the Mansion.

The old door leads out and down to a vast underground canyon with a lava river flowing through it.

The key used to be kept in a Jar beside the door, but they both went missing, only for the Jar to turn up again without the key a short while later.

Now the key’s turned up, I’m left wondering as to how it made its way to the centre of the Vestibule floor… granted I don’t go in there often, but I would have spotted it before now.

But the key isn’t the point (or key!) to this post. The point is the finding of the object after so long. Why is it that when we lose things, and spend hours looking for them, we eventually find them in the first place we checked?  The experience is usually joined by words such as “I’ve checked under there” or “why didn’t I see that sooner?” followed by the realisation that we’ve wasted the better part of X hours for no reason whatsoever, apart from searching places where the object obviously wasn’t.

I’m searching for inspiration again at the moment. Inspiration for posts for the blog, that is.

My mind seems to have gone on holiday, and left a brief note saying ‘it’s up to you now kid, get on with it!’

I’ve decided to do some Spring Cleaning. Well, it’s actually more like Autumn Cleaning now… I don’t know what happened to the Summer – although I bet that’ll turn up again when I’m not looking.

So, in the meantime, I’ll be posting when I can, about objects that I come across during the course of said Autumn Cleaning. Hopefully not about old socks and scribbled notes.

And maybe, just maybe, the items will spark something else within me… stoke those fires of inspiration, fire my imagination once again and launch my empty mind down avenues that have never been explored. Perhaps, I’ll be catapulted even further Beyond the Sphere than I’ve ever gone before, and come back with ideas for posts that are simply out of this world.

Or, I could just write about old socks. We’ll see.

13 responses to “The Key’s not the Key, or is it?”

  1. prenin avatar

    Nice to know you have the key back Tom! 🙂

    Maybe there’s a reason it showed up where it did! 🙂

    Odd socks are fine – I have several!!! 🙂

    God Bless!

    Prenin.

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Me too, Prenin!
      I’ve managed to resist the sock post so far!

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  2. colonialist avatar

    Things do move around – at least, we had an instance where a matchbox-sized item in plain view on a table vanished, we literally stripped the small room in vain, but it returned to the same spot on the table two days later. No other humans present, and no known record of sleepwalking. Would a mouse or rat do that? Or … cue in spooky music

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      It happens a lot, Col. I think things like to have a look around as much as we do!

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  3. Diane Henders avatar

    I’m glad mine’s not the only brain that’s gone on vacation – if you happen to spot it, please let me know… 😉

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Will do, Diane. I wonder where they could be?

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  4. Visionkeeper avatar

    TL….It is just fine for ones brain to take vacation! No need to feel compelled to write a post every single day. That is insanity really. It should all come and go with the flow of life and anything else is just being pushed forth out of a sense of duty or something. Relax, let your mind wander and go stumble about below ground for a while and see what you find. BTW, when you lose something, you lose it because when you first separate from whatever it is, you are in one dimension and when you remember and go looking for it again, often times you are in another dimension, so of course you won’t find it! I guess we just have to master the art of being in all dimensions at the same time. Whew. As if we don’t have enough to do! Happy weekend…VK

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      I really want to post as often as I can to try to improve, VK. To keep my imagination flowing, and enjoy the challenge of trying to come up with something different… I feel frustrated with myself if I can’t come up with anything. I suppose I do need to let go really, and not try as hard.
      The different dimensions makes sense… that’s the only explanation for it!

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  5. Visionkeeper avatar

    P.S. I miss the old font you were using. I forget what it was but I really liked it! Did it have a name you remember?

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      Ah, sorry, VK. You know what I’m like when it comes to changing things around here!
      The previous font was either Le Monde Journal or Le Monde Sans… Journal I think, but I have used both.

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  6. Sherri avatar

    This happens from time to time I find too Tom. I don’t like it when it does, but when it does, I do just what you are doing…find other tasks and let the mind wander. Inspiration is awaiting you in the most unexpected of places 🙂

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    1. Tom Merriman avatar

      It is that, Sherri! It isn’t long before something stirs the imagination again!
      Like you say, just go with the flow and see what happens.

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