Borrowing Eyes

Between age and infirmity, I often do not see what's right in front of me, and I am plagued with not being able to find things. Keeping a list "lifts" the worry from my busy mind, so I am not crawling out of bed at 2AM to search for something I remember having lost.

I keep a list of these on my table. When someone comes to visit, I ask to "borrow" their eyes to look for these things. Often they are found within minutes and we both have a good laugh.

The funniest time was when my daughter came to help me look for something and she pulled open my kitchen utensil drawer and found an old stick of margarine lying in it. I do not remember losing that, but I'm glad she found it before the weather got hot.