In other Words - Book Two of Six
It’s a mystifying business, this business of humor – deadly, too, comedians are always talking about, “killin’ their audience.
Did ever you hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike,
Crossed the wide mountains with her lover Ike,
With two yoke of oxen and one spotted hog,
A tall shanghai rooster, and an old yeller dog.
Birth, Growth, Fullness, Decay, Dissolution, Death; the inevitable progress of all things created -
including us.
The basic idea of neoteny is simple: infant characteristics are extended into adulthood.
What do they have in common? Neither itch nor impulse is generated by our will.
That sums up my Mom. She was always busy at something. She would have made a first-rate Executive Secretary.
I was in high school when I first saw a Modigliani painting. I was much taken by the long sensual lines, the muted earthy colors, and the strange contradiction of an abstracted nude that yet, somehow oozed life and sexual allure.
Three little words that stick in the craw. Even when we know that we don’t know, we are reluctant to say so.
Remember the toy of pegs & holes? The game was to tap round pegs; square pegs; and triangular pegs into their proper holes? It taught us all, early on, to think of disparate things as components of categories.
It’s a very old question. II Peter 3:11–18 asks, “What manner of persons ought yea to be”, then instructs, ”Grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord”.
Friday, March 10, 1933, Monroe Iowa, 8:00 A.M. - Five rounds from a pump-action 12 gauge shotgun took the lives of four souls. Each died from close-range blasts that splattered blood, flesh and bone.