One Christmas season, Alyson and I spent almost a week turning the house upside down looking for a diamond earing that had gone missing. The pair wasn’t large or expensive, but it was an early gift from me to her. We were upset to lose one of them. We crawled around the house looking in the carpet. We pulled all the cushions off the couch and stuck our hands down into the cracks. We even sifted through the dirt in the vacuum cleaner. Despite our best efforts, we didn’t find the missing earing. Continue reading The Joy of Finding that Which Was Lost