{"id":349,"date":"2006-05-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/05\/a-search-for-lip-balmor-someth.html"},"modified":"2006-05-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T12:00:00","slug":"a-search-for-lip-balmor-someth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/05\/a-search-for-lip-balmor-someth.html","title":{"rendered":"A Search for Lip Balm&#8211;or Something More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>My lips have been chapped for a couple of days, and I&#8217;ve been <em>feeling<\/em> too busy to do anything about it. I tried tiny fingertip doses of cocoa butter and moisturizing cream, but nope, nothing but lip balm will do at times like these. Searched my purse. No Chapstick (sometimes I get lucky). Then I searched the bathroom shelf where cosmetics and do-dahs are waiting for me to organize them. <em>Rattle, peer, paw, search, gosh, darn.<\/em> Nothing. I decided that I&#8217;d have to make a special trip to a drug store, and that frustrated me terrifically. <\/p>\n<p>Then the drawer I was pawing through got stuck and wouldn&#8217;t retreat to its proper place. Gee whiz, can&#8217;t catch a break. Then the stress turned global: <em>Nothing in this house works. I can&#8217;t handle simple tasks. If I could just reach back, and grab whatever&#8217;s keeping this miserable drawer from sliding. <\/em>Oh, I got it. What is this?<\/p>\n<p>Lip balm. Stuck behind the drawer was a fresh tube of lip balm. Awash with gratitude, I realized that the thing annoying me was actually the object of my search. 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