Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 23, 2022

Faith isn’t a “thing”.

“It always works some of the time?”

And then there’s the always reliable “It’s always in the last place you look.” I mean, how many people continue to look after they’ve found it?

Or it’s fairly largely somewhat mostly always some of the time.

Caulfield is deciding from too little experience. One gains and loses one’s faith in others based on their individual examples. It is similar to the effects of wind and waves on a small sailing craft – the longer one sails, the better one learns to steer the currents. He still has a long voyage ahead – if he is lucky.

Regarding Frazz’s final comment, that’s a definite possibility, which is more likely than ‘there might be a possibility’. In a state of sudden doubt after telling someone something, and him asking if I was sure, I replied, “I’m probably sure.”

Similar story: Discovered I’d lost my keys Wednesday trying to get into my condo’s stairwell. Retraced my steps. Found a key ring my daughter had lost some weeks earlier along the way. Gave up, took my backup set and had new keys made. Went to test the new keys in that same condo door, and found my “lost” keys stuck in that lock — obviously somebody had found them nearby and stuck them in the lock. (My thanks to that anonymous benefactor.)

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

A lot of grownups were loud mouth little know-it-alls (so they thought) ..too!

I seem to find lost things soon after I’ve purchased a replacement.

Isn’t that life, “That’s how it always works, some of the time.”

Once I lost my keys Friday and didn’t find them until Monday morning.

Oh, come on…. what that means is that you should think back to the last place that you do remember having it, and that jogs your memory to go step by step from that moment till you do remember where you put it. I am something of an expert on forgetting where I put things. I have five of many things because the advice doesn’t always work.