FINDERS KEEPERS LOSERS WEEPERS

Walking slowly along a path, red bricks colored with tiny glass pieces deep in the bricks to sparkle like sparkling soda, sparkling flooring, a stairway to heaven. 

Keeping your gaze downward in an eternal bow to our Lord, what do you see on the ground? Sparkles yes, glowing-ness as the glass bits shine. Anything else? Is there a treasure to be had? Something someone dropped for you to pick up? 

Walking a dog and finding a $20 bill, greener than the grass it is laying on, so jumps up as like a Mexican jumping bean, into your vision, a money cash bill without an owner, for you to be its owner. What's under the picnic table in front of a Subway sandwich restaurant? Another bill? Yes! No owner, finders keepers losers weepers.

An umbrella! A new umbrella, someone forgot to take with them after they left their chair. Wow! Now you have two umbrellas, the spare one you just found in better shape than the one you have had. Sturdy handle, metal pieces, solid black in color, not large, just large enough. 

In a public shower stall? Found some new soap someone left behind? New shampoo, no sign of an owner anywhere? If you would turn it in to a lost and found, the staff would claim it and not return it to its original owner, anyway. So better yourself to be a responsible owner of what is lost.  

Again, walking on a sidewalk and behold! What do we see? A beautiful red and purple woolen shawl, soft and warm to the touch, hanging on a fence on the sidewalk, no owner to be found, instead to find this garment treasure, a fresh clean laundered shawl, to warm your neck as it covers it and flows freely over your shoulders and back. 

Not in a dumpster, located on top, not in. What is being donated? Does it fit? Is it clean? Need a new mattress for your bed? Found one as good as brand new in an alley? We'd be dumb to pass it up. Creating "found object" fine art? These dumpsters become treasure chests in which to find art supplies. Good Will stores too. A thrift shop in which to be thrifty, creating sculpture out of junk, one man's junk is another man's treasure.

Yes, important to keep what you find, not to pass up what is junk to someone else, is the California Gold Rush to you. An object found to be like a Hope Diamond, to you, means nothing to its former owner, who didn't try to keep it, who irresponsibly left it behind, once someone's private property, but not nurtured, until it luckily, blessedly fell into your hands.