1: Welcome to the lost & Found.

What is Lost & Found? I’m still trying to figure that out myself — hence the name. More the former than the latter at the particular moment that I’m writing this.

The idea of a “Lost & Found” blog has been in the back of my mind for a while, the way the mental image it conjures, one of piled up, well-worn and half-forgotten items in a dusty box somewhere, seems not dissimilar from what a public, online journal is at its most pure. A place for putting down the things we’ve long turned over in our minds and are now ready to let go of; a repository for all the stuff (and selves) we’ve collected on our journeys; and sometimes, in the case of others’ blogs, at least, something to peek at, rifle through, and find exactly what we didn’t know we needed.

Note: It just now is occurring to me that I’m more describing a bin at a secondhand store than I am a lost and found — which generally speaking, you should only take things out of if they are yours — but for the purposes of this blog let’s imagine this is a Lost & Found of items that have not been claimed in many, many months. OK, continuing…

The name also appeals to me in another sense, the sense that it describes life itself, which if you really think about it, is pretty much a perpetual series of losings and findings (items, others, oneself) that continue over and over until one day they stop, and you’re either lost forever, or found forever, which one I’m not too sure, and no one who’s never died before can really say either.

Which is all to say, there are absolutely no thematic guard rails to this bit of online real estate, which is a lousy marketing pitch, but at least an honest one. And also, given it’s named after an eclectic, smelly bin of things that people have mostly forgotten about, marketing clearly isn’t really the point anyway.

Hope you enjoy your time at L+F. If you find something useful, consider it yours.

- Ryan