"What once was lost has now been found..."

Myapologies for not posting these past couple of days but I've been on a miniature quest for lost relics of unquantifiable value.

I'm usually pretty good at finding things quickly. It's rare that I misplace something longer than a few days. In fact, my friends usually recruit me to find objects in their own rooms that they have misplaced. Thus, I've been a bit out of sorts in trying to find my string lights
as well as - I later discovered was misplaced - my passport. I wracked my brain and tore it apart trying desperately to think of where these items could be before reverting to a tactic I had never thought worked. I thought hard about where I had left it last. My criticism of this has
always been “Well, if I could remember where I had it last, it wouldn't be lost.” Also, I had already done this and was still unable to find what I was looking for. Yet I tried again, reverse remembering why I had put it where I had (a shelf under a canvas box), what it actually looked like and why I would have thought to move it. IT WORKED!

My passport I had moved to a more secure location. I remembered this first then recalled that I had put it inside my money belt then inside... my trunk!

One down. One to go.

With the string lights, this process did not work. I had not seen these things since January. The last place I could picture them was in another state. Finding them really consisted of looking in the one place I hadn't. I hadn't checked this place yet because it was dusty and difficult to reach. Of course, this is where I found my string lights. Go figure. I guess this means my skills of detection are back.