Mystery

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

~ Oscar Wilde

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When I was a kid I liked mysteries. I loved Encyclopedia Brown, but I also liked Hardy Boys and sometimes Nancy Drew.  My favorite Nancy Drew book was The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion.  I don't remember much about the story, but I sort of remember the cover.

And a moss-covered anything is mysterious.  But a moss-covered MANSION?  What is going on there?

I liked trying to figure things out.  I suppose it is sort of because when you are a kid, everything is a mystery.  Why are adults so stupid?  Why are the other kids so mean?  Why can't I find my shoe?  Why did that boy cry when I called him stupid?