Spring 2010 - #3

Sunset: Looking toward Brunswick from Jekyll Is.

What's In a Name?
(2010/03/13)

How does one choose where to live? If you have a choice of location would you choose Bland, Virginia or Prosperity, West Virginia? There is also a Prosperity, PA, so that does give you more options. (Intercourse, PA has always been intriguing.) Maybe Asians have a good idea by using Feng Shui to determine home location as well as placement of furniture in the house.
In our town, some residents want to change their house number because the present one is not a symbol of Good Fortune. I think I would change mine to 444. When you press the Shift key, on the keyboard, 444 becomes $$$. This I like. Of course, our town, using what little wisdom it has, will be collecting a fee for number changes. For the town, Feng Shui could be the road to Prosperity.

And speaking of Town Councils. I love the one here in Brunswick, GA. For sometime they have been debating the placement of a jail expansion. Some councilors are guilty of hiding pertinent facts. Accusations have been hurled back and forth. The best is the names one counselor has given to three of his adversaries: Tweedledee, Tweedledum and Moron. Got to love it!

Magnolia: First of the Season, Blufton, SC

Names. I love names. Dickens and Trollope used definitive names for their novel characters: Bumble, Micawber, Skimpole and Pecksniff.
There are names that just sound so right. They roll off the tongue in such a way that they sound like music. One student, from my teaching career, was Julia Joyce VanWilligen. Say that over and over. It reminds me of “T'was brillig and the slithy tove did gyre and gimble in the wabe”. (Lewis Carroll)
I have just come across another name that I love. This belongs to a member of a church we visited on this trip: Joely Tweel. She is the Worship Associate at a church in SC. It just feels so good to say that name.

Marsh at Sunset

Hearing aids can be a delight sometimes. On a very cold morning in Morgantown, VA., we were seated at a local McDonald's having breakfast. Nearby, was a group of friends: the good old guys with lots of stories and lots of time to tell them.
I overheard one gentlemen assessing the opinions of another: “He says those kinds of things 'cause he's a Klu Klucker.”
Now that got me to thinking. (Always a dangerous hobby of mine.) There are certain areas in the South where I would consider opening an all-day breakfast chain of restaurants.
I'd call them:

Klapp's Klu Klucks & Ham - Start the Day with Attitude

Of course the addresses would be "444" some street or avenue.

A Nice Afternoon in Savannah

Not far back in our journey, Savannah, I think, a mobile home pulled into the campground. Lashed to the top of this vehicle were two kayaks. The ropes were 'firmly' tied to his refrigerator exhaust vent and his roof top TV antenna. Guess Tweedledee and Moron were out on vacation.

A Mermaid