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NEW YEAR, NEW MYSTERIES
For many people, the New Year brings with it renewed efforts for an improved life. On January 1st, many of us make resolutions to better ourselves. Maybe it's to lose weight, to be better spouses... to finish that novel or to go back to school. Depending on who you are and how you live your life, your resolutions could be anything.
And what comes with these new resolutions? Different routines and being outside our own comfort zone. When we're used to a routine, there isn't a whole lot that's new or mysterious. There's always the same coffee shop on the same corner on the road to work. The neighbor always mows his lawn on Sunday. We're creatures of habit, and habit breeds routine which breeds predictability. But when the New Year rolls around, all that predictability is thrown out the window. We start exercising and suddenly, instead of sleeping in an extra thirty minutes in the morning, we're awake and running through the neighborhood just as the rest of the world is waking. We resolve to learn how to play the guitar this year, and suddenly we leave work early on Friday afternoons so we can make it to our new music class. We tell ourselves we're going to finally finish that novel this year, and we find ourselves making evening trips to the library for research, or spending way more time than we used to, sitting in the corner of a coffee shop with a laptop and a latte.
What better place to find a new mystery than all of these changes to our daily routine? At the beginning of the year, when all thoughts are on fresh starts and renewal, find the mystery in the little changes that we've resolved to make in our lives. What do you see when you're out jogging so early in the morning? Who is that creepy guy who comes into the coffee shop and orders the same thing every day? Why is the neighbor suddenly mowing his lawn on Saturdays instead of Sundays?
This year, whatever your other resolutions may be, resolve to find the mysteries - both large and small - that can come from even the slightest change to your daily routine. When your habits change, so do your opportunities to discover new and mysterious things. 
Until next time,
- Jeff |
This week, I would encourage you to check out the following mystery items:
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To say that I have a awful knack for getting myself and my friend into messy situations is an understatement at best, at the worst it's the mildest thing that anyone could ever think to say about me.Of course many say that it cames with the names,my name is Sheryll Holmes and my friend is Joanna Watson, our great grandfathers were Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. At least that's what our parents tell us,I personally am still checking our family trees,and now no doubt you're curious about the whole 'messy situations' thing ,am I right?
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Julia's first night alone in the Millstone manor. The one night she won't want to remember
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It was snowing in the town of Millstone, New Jersey. There was a sudden movement across the street of the manor. A black shadow then followed up and gained access to the basement of the manor. Slowly, it stalked up the steps of the basement noticing the door was left ajar.
Mist upon mist / Shadow upon shadow / Shadow within the mist within the darkest night / Im the monster within / Im the man outside
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Roads / follow my roads / see where they take you / look hard look long / the path is long / the traps are many / the lies are long
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Mystery newsletter 1-19-11 Dark short depicting a little girl's reaction to being unvalued
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On the sofa she sat. Her hands, white like frost, rest rigidly on her tiny lap. A pensive smile accentuated her plump matching face. Her lips were the color of cranberry glass. Gregetta looked like an elegant little cherub. Every week Mommie designed and stitched a new dress especially for her. Mommie constantly formed the onyx-black ringlets that covered Gregetta's small head. "My little ivory princess" Mommie called her.
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In response to my last newsletter on mysteries and beginnings, middles and ends:
DB Cooper writes: "The strangest thing is that the new Scooby Doos sometimes allow for the paranormal. The original never ever ended with a paranormal explanation."
I totally agree. I think Scooby and his friends officially jumped the shark when real paranormal mysteries started making their way in.
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Mystery: January 19, 2011 Issue [#4193]
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