Days consecrated to the useless*

by chuckofish

My week is off to a quiet start and that is okay with me. I don’t have much going on besides having to do my homework for my Bible Study which starts anew on Thursday.

This week I will also be reading works by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer, poet and philosopher, whose birthday we celebrate on August 24. Here is a snippet from an interview with William F. Buckley where he speaks about the English language…

I could listen to him talk for hours.

Meanwhile Don’s dahlias are beautiful…

As a member of the Asteraceae family, the dahlia has a flower head that is actually a composite with both central disc florets and surrounding ray florets. Each floret is a flower in its own right, according to Don, but is often incorrectly described as a petal. God’s amazing creation!

I guess things went well on the first day of school…


And here’s a fun fact to know and share: In 1954, Charles Schulz introduced Charlotte Braun to the Charlie Brown cast as a loud-mouthed female character (a role Lucy would later inherit). Readers disliked Charlotte, and she disappeared a few months later after only about 10 times in the strip. 

I have a feeling Charlotte may have hit too close to home for some people (loud-mouthed females). But she’d fit right in now…

Enjoy your Tuesday!

*Jorge Luis Borges, from the poem “That One”