Life's Easier When You Can Write Off Others As Monsters, As Demons, As Horrible Threats That Must Be

My new X-kilt, rear.  This was made for me by a very talented pair of teenage seamstresses, and I was very happy with the results.  Sherwood Celtic Festival, 2013.

There is beauty in the common and prosaic as well as the rare and exceptional.

Amy and Miles. (at My Kitchen.)

Because this can’t be reblogged enough.

“You’ll vote because it’s the thing to do” (1956)

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My new X-kilt, front side.  Sherwood Celtic Festival, 2013.

Wanting

It's an important life lesson to learn to distinguish between what you think you *should* want and what you actually *do* want.  If you don't, you may end up becoming a doctor when what you really want is to become a dancer.  Or vice versa.

My wife really likes this swimsuit. Naturally, it's from the 1970s….

"You look like that guy."

On Sunday I was in our shop at Sherwood Forest Faire, a Renaissance festival near Austin.  A family came in with two sons around age 6 or 7.  I was wearing my wide brimmed, wool felt Cavalier hat, that's olive green and weathered and dusty.  I also had on a thin green wool cloak, wrapped up around my shoulders and pinned in place.

One of the boys says to me, "You look like that guy from Indiana Jones."

I inquired which guy that might be.  "Indy's friend.  The one who's crazy."

I thought for a moment and realized that he was talking about Harold "Ox" Oxley from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, portrayed by accomplished actor John Hurt.

So, apparently I look like an older, crazy John Hurt.

Yeah, I'll take that.

Juice box for grown-ups.