Where Did It Go?

So I sometimes like to think I’m Dick Clark on The $100,000 Pyramid when he’d jump in after the contestants fell short because they couldn’t come up with the perfect clue for “Things That Disappear.” If I were channeling my inner Dick Clark, I’d lean in over that cheesy circular gameshow railing and say something like “the other sock…a golf ball sliced into the woods….the eggs in a house of teenage boys….a job in a down market…your car keys when you have to take the kid to work…a loved one.”  For me personally and a lot of folks as they get older, the list of things that disappear or lose seems to be growing - like my poise and energy, my hearing, posture and patience, self control, self respect, dad’s discharge instructions, and time with people who matter to you. But it’s okay. When things disappear, it doesn’t mean they are gone forever. Just found a new home is all and maybe they will turn up in some other form when you least expect. Just ask 2-year-old Hayden Wheeler whose red golf ball disappeared here at Castle Creek Mini Golf in Salem, Massachusetts back in 2000.  I would think Hayden, now 25, probably came across that ball again – maybe it was the same one or maybe it just had a new look and a fresh perspective.