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Les Miserables: Even After all These Years

My sister-in-law gave me Les Miserables (by Victor Hugo) for Christmas one year. It was a big book, a tome. But, I was curious. I hadn’t read the book, seen the movies or performances. Also, the story is over 100 years old (closing in on 200 years even) and I really like history. What better way to see history than from the words written by someone who was there.

Build a Better Mousetrap for the End of the World

Would you even guess this is a mousetrap? It’s vintage, from the 1930’s approximately. I first saw it on a video from Shawn Woods and then I went looking on eBay out of curiousity. Shawn Woods makes videos of how mousetraps actually work at catching mice. If you are especially squeamish or strongly against killing rodents, don’t watch. 

Write a Letter about Yourself

Look back on your year, from the end of last October to the nearing of the end of this October. In some spiritual beliefs this time of the year is about looking back, reflecting on the past and finding fresh inspiration for the future.

Write yourself a short letter. You could even try writing it in long hand if your penmanship hasn’t become too rusty from using the computer keyboard. Write about the past year and what you can look forward to. Put your letter somewhere you will find it next year, for October 2009. Tell yourself about yourself.

Best wishes for the year ahead. 🙂

Long, Dark, Rusty Secrets

Two friends have a secret. Each has a different secret. Both secrets are unique and something they have kept from each other for years. Neither would ever dream of telling the other her secret.

What are the secrets each friend is keeping? Why do they keep these things secret from each other? How would the world, or their part of it, change if the secrets were not kept?

The Adventure of the Lost and Found Glove

You’ve lost one of the gloves Great Aunt Hettie gave to your for Christmas. She’s going to be pretty upset if you don’t show up wearing both of them. Today is her birthday and you really do want to be there for the party, you’re the one who organized it all.

At the subway station you find the lost and found. Seemed no one you asked actually knew where it was. But, there, is a door off the platform which says "Lost and Found". It’s a wonder that none of the staff were able to direct you there, such a simple and straight forward place.

Inside the room are bins loaded with hats, gloves, coats, scarves and all sorts of unrelated things which you never would have thought to see in a lost and found. How did the blow up whale get there, how could anyone forget that?!!

While digging into the bottom of the fourth bin, trying to find your glove, you fall in. But, the good news is you can see your glove, right at the bottom, just a bit out of reach. It’s really odd that no matter how far you dig and how deep you seem to be going into the bin, that glove stays just out of your reach. Like a carrot on a string, leading you into adventures unknown.

So, where do you end up? Where does the adventure of the lost and found glove take you?