Day 346: Lost and Found

Today's Gratitude Attitude is the fruit of a prayer I uttered last night. Go ahead and say that *you* don't believe in the power or reality of prayer but I've had too many times where my prayers have been answered to deny the power of them. (And btw, not all of my prayers have been answered my way but they have been answered - that's a different topic for a different blog! *wink*) ANYWAY. Back to the real topic of today's Gratitude Attitude. My hub lost his wallet yesterday and searched my car, where it was last seen, three times. With a flashlight, moving seats, checking all the nooks and crannies. Then he went back to work and checked all over there. Then he looked at home. Nada. It was gone. He felt badly. He started making calls to cancel things so nobody could increase our already depleted finances. He was really down about the whole thing and I laid in bed next to him and silently asked God to reveal the location of the stupid wallet for the sake of my hub's sanity and countenance. We woke up this morning and he decided to search my car one last time even though he already had. GUESS WHAT?! He found the lost wallet. GUESS WHERE?! In the Kleenex box in the car! What are the odds? I had to brake that morning and the wallet, unbeknownst to us, slide off the seat where he had laid it and it fell straight into the Kleenex box. Incredible. I asked him what made him look in the Kleenex box and he said he just decided to "on a whim". People. I asked God to reveal the location of the wallet and people HE DID. He is the best lost and found EVER.

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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