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“You’d think solving mysteries would bring you closure, that closing the loop would comfort and quiet your mind. But it never does. The truth always disappoints.” ~John Green in Turtles All the Way Down Finally, finally, I have gotten brave enough to try a new Mystery Photo Game. Do you hear a drumroll? I’ve been dragging my feet about getting …
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who made this Mystery Photo Game so much fun. You all have the best imaginations. No wonder you love to read and turn those story words into movies in your heads. I admit …
There is always a pleasure in unraveling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty. – Elizabeth Gaskell I’ve had a great time playing the mystery photo game with you all this time around. It feels like we just got started instead of being already to our last mystery photo. I have struggled over what to …
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. ~Julia Cameron Another mystery has come and been solved – by some of you. When I posted Sunday’s mystery photo, I wasn’t sure whether it would be easy or hard. Whichever it was for you, I loved the guesses. Some were very fun. Ann threw up her hands and gave …
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?” ~ Charles de Lint My first mystery photo didn’t do too badly. Not everyone got it and not everyone didn’t get it. The popular guess was a honeycomb. Very reasonable guess since just a few weeks ago I was all about …
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen My new book, In the Shadow of the River, came out on May 9th. Some of you even got the book before that date as a few flew out to readers early. Always fun to have a new story out on the shelves to sell and in the hands of people …
Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. — Brian Rathbone And so once again the Mystery Photo Game draws to a close. I hope you had fun. I did although I had a monumental failure of making a mystery out of the last photo …
The almost surprised look that death had frozen on his face didn’t matter now. What mattered was why the man was there on the Hidden Springs Courthouse steps where folks didn’t get murdered. At least never until tod ay. (From Murder at the Courthouse) Only two more mystery photos for this Mystery Photo Game including the one here. That’s probaby …
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns. ~Ilaiyaraaja I must admit that I was glad you weren’t all right or nearly so with your guesses on the last mystery photo like on the first picture. That gives me a little more courage to continue on with this game and to …
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. (Generally attributed to Abraham Linclon with some Quotation Experts doubting he ever said it.) As Yogi Berra is quoted as saying (true or not) “I haven’t said half the things I said.” …