To the editor:<\/p>\n
Only on Sanibel Island, can a string lead to the greatest mystery of the day!<\/p>\n
The sun was out spectacularly and it was about 65 degrees, as I took my usual walk along the seashore. I reveled at the sun shining on the water, glistening brilliantly, as the waves rolled in.<\/p>\n
In the distance, I saw a man standing on the sand at the edge of the ocean. He seemed to be doing Tai Chi. He was pulling his arms into himself, first, the right, then the left and then the right and then the left \u2026 I was amazed at how consistent he kept on doing this, time and time again!<\/p>\n
As I got closer to him, I began to wonder if he was actually exercising.\u00a0His movements were just too repetitive, doing the same thing over and over.<\/p>\n
I finally reached him and just had to ask him. \u201cMy friend,\u201d I said. \u201cWith all due respect, what is it that you are doing? Is this a new form of spiritual martial arts? Have you discovered the secrets of the universe and are trying to pull them into yourself?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot at all,\u201d he said, looking kind of bewildered and confused. \u201cDo you see the string? I\u2019ve been pulling it for 15 minutes already and it just never ends! I don\u2019t want any turtles, fish, or birds getting caught in it! It seems to be attached to something, but I don\u2019t know what it is!\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked closer and sure enough there was a string coming in right from the air around us! He kept pulling on it, over and over again, but there seemed to be nothing attached! It just never ended.<\/p>\n
The guy almost shouted out now, getting more and more perturbed: \u201cI have to find out what\u2019s at the end of this string. This is driving me crazy! It\u201ds just going on and on, into infinity!\u201d<\/p>\n
By now, a small crowd of people had gathered around him. After hearing the story, everyone kept shouting out ideas. What could possibly be the weight at the end of the string? Was it a connection to the clouds which had been seeded to create some badly needed rain? Was it possible, that it actually led to the sacred, \u201cStairway To Heaven\u201d?<\/p>\n
We all stood there shouting out wild ideas, when 10 minutes later, a new guy jogged by, saw the string being pulled, and calmly declared, \u201cOh, that\u2019s, where my kite went! I lost it about an hour ago! I was worried about all the wildlife possibly getting caught in the 2,200 feet of string!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is amazingly ironic,\u201d the kite string puller said. \u201cWe had absolutely no idea what the string was attached to! All I knew was that I was pulling it and pulling it and it just kept going and going on forever!\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally the kite appeared at the end of the string and the crowd started wildly cheering! \u201cThe mystery is finally solved!\u201d the kite string puller declared. \u201cThis could only happen on Sanibel Island, where mysteries are magically created and then magically solved!\u201d<\/p>\n
Lisa Solomon<\/p>\n
Long Beach, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Only on Sanibel Island, can a string lead to the greatest mystery of the day!…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-166030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}