I am a tenacious sleuth with a bad memory. I have spent my spare time for weeks looking for one of the ‘Two Books in the Trash.’  This unexplained event occurred while cleaning out my parents’ home on Enwood.

I finally think that I have found the elusive little book of marriage propaganda that  was a wedding gift to my parents in 1957. I miss- remembered the author which put me on a completely different trail that dead ended this morning. But that wrong trail and dead end were blessings in disguise. It is hard to get back on track when one makes a wrong turn many turns ago. It could be looked at as wasted time, but that’s not how I see it.

Every wrong turn is a chance to learn. I went back to my original list of clues and crossed off Norman Vincent Peale as the author.  If you know anything about him, you know his relationship with two famous Republicans.

Researching Norman Vincent Peale’s career and books did give me insight that has helped me puzzle out certain aspects of a famous person who refuses to see any negative in his own reality. If you have been aghast as this personality flaw of our current president, you may want to do some sleuthing in that direction. This helped me as a person who studies reality.

I digress.

So I went back to the other aspects of the book that I remembered. Plain cover, small size, published in 1957 or before, title was part of wedding vows. Omit author. New rabbit hole? I think I found it!

I guess I will be ordering the two books from the trash on ebay or etsy. Hi Ho so it goes.

The second book has its own rabbit hole that has taken me on a loooooooong journey back through the propaganda of the Vietnam years. Wow! This has been crazy exciting for me. The time circles just keep coming back around.

The post about the Two Books in the Trash will take awhile. It is why I jumped out of bed early this morning.  That is a good thing.

Stay tuned but don’t hold your breath. What a ride!

FLOWER in deep

Please do not feel tricked by the feature photo. I cannot think of rabbit holes without remembering Barley and Charlotte. This is my all-time favorite photo of them. The post name was ‘Busy and Not Busy.’ Ha