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Feast of Saint Theresa of Avila
Seattle
Dearest reader,
During my morning commute, I usually do the crossword puzzle in the venerable Tacoma News Tribune. It's usually enough to wake my brain, though they are not so difficult that I can't use a pen to fill them in.
This morning, one of the clues was "Ragamuffin". This immediately put a silly children's counting rhyme into my head:
It's the sort of thing children use to determine sides or captains for ad hoc ball games and the like.
Except that I don't know whether it actually exists or I made it up.
Has anyone heard of this before?
The experience was made slightly more surreal when the words "hovel" and "nest" proved to be answers in the puzzle - answers I hadn't yet filled in when the rhyme occurred to me.
In other news, today is the feast of Saint Theresa of Avila, one of the great Doctors of the Church. In college I was once called upon to write three essays about her, one from a Marxist perspective, one from a Freudian perspective, and one from a Kierkegaardian perspective.
Needless to say, the sum of the essays was no where near the total of her life and work. I think the Kierkegaard one was the most ridiculous of all. I wrote it without notes from the top of my drunken head on an electric typewriter the night before it was due.
It was my best grade in the class.
Seattle
Dearest reader,
During my morning commute, I usually do the crossword puzzle in the venerable Tacoma News Tribune. It's usually enough to wake my brain, though they are not so difficult that I can't use a pen to fill them in.
This morning, one of the clues was "Ragamuffin". This immediately put a silly children's counting rhyme into my head:
Ragamuffin, ragamuffin
Hovel for a nest
Tell us now
Who is the best.
It's the sort of thing children use to determine sides or captains for ad hoc ball games and the like.
Except that I don't know whether it actually exists or I made it up.
Has anyone heard of this before?
The experience was made slightly more surreal when the words "hovel" and "nest" proved to be answers in the puzzle - answers I hadn't yet filled in when the rhyme occurred to me.
In other news, today is the feast of Saint Theresa of Avila, one of the great Doctors of the Church. In college I was once called upon to write three essays about her, one from a Marxist perspective, one from a Freudian perspective, and one from a Kierkegaardian perspective.
Needless to say, the sum of the essays was no where near the total of her life and work. I think the Kierkegaard one was the most ridiculous of all. I wrote it without notes from the top of my drunken head on an electric typewriter the night before it was due.
It was my best grade in the class.
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