A Simple Solution for SOCS Aug 16, 2025

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DSC08473I found five old passports and an international driving permit from 1986.
Why, oh why can I not find my current passport?


A Simple Solution

An extra hour would be nice. A day’s not long enough.
I know I’d use the extra hour looking for lost stuff!
My passport has gone missing and it’s been a major pain.
I would give most anything to have it back again.
I’ve looked in all my files, my drawers and every purse.
I have too many places. It couldn’t get much worse.
If I ever find it, I’ve made myself a vow to
make my life much simpler, if I just could figure how to!

 

I actually lost my passport a few years ago. I looked for it for  4 or 5 hours without finding it, but  my housekeeper found it in 5 minutes when she came the next day––in a place where I’d looked twice!!! She lit a candle and said whenever I lost things I should do the same. She says her friend has a Virgin and Child statue, and whenever she loses anything, she takes the baby out of the mother’s arms and says she’ll return it when she has helped her to find whatever she has lost!! Talk about blackmail in high places! Ha. A simple solution.

The prompt for SOCS is “Simple.”

18 thoughts on “A Simple Solution for SOCS Aug 16, 2025”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      No, as none of my Virgins have removable babies, but Yolanda has been known to light a candle in front of my little San Antonio retablo purchased in Santorini. I am not religious, but hard to live in Mexico without buying art that contains Virgins and saints. And hard not to fall in with local customs such as Day of the Dead and saints days. I guess I practice the local customs much as I celebrate Christmas…for my own reasons and for what they represent to me.

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            1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

              Thanks, Paul. A good session today. I sent you a link to another “Lost Things” piece, but the hyperlink didn’t work so you’ll have to copy and paste it into the search bar if you want to see it…more on this later.

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  4. Lou Carreras's avatarLou Carreras

    A story from my days researching saints societies that bears on your housekeeper removing the baby.
    I always collected stories that were told about the saints. One day a friend told me about a saint in Italy who was famous fro helping out his community in times of need. One year a nearby volcano threatened to send a hot lava flow through the town. So the citizens went to the chapel and got Santo Arnolfo out. They paraded around and around, but the lava continued to flow towards the town. On the third day and the third procession the leader of the society had had it. They walked right up to the lava. Raised and lowered the saint three times. Nothing. Then the leader walked around in front and said to the saint – Saint Arnolfo- we venerate you, we take you on processions. If you don’t help us we will pitch you right into the lava that is going to take our town!” Then they raised and lowered the saint three times and made to pitch the saint into the lava.
    All of a sudden, the saint’s arm shot out, and the right hand made a sign of benediction. The lava stopped.

    Analysis? Not to overgeneralize, but there is a lot of mutual exchange going on in the relationships with saints across the Mediterranean, and the New World where they migrated to – you do this for me, and I do that for you, an oversimplification. But true. Don’t forget to thank the Virgin, Judy. Turnabout is fair play!

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