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Proper Table Manners
Started April 29, 2012 @ 10:51am by Flo
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Flo
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| Proper Table Manners | April 29, 2012 @ 10:51am | When I saw this bare willow twig "reaching down" to its reflection, it reminded me of an incident from my childhood. One day at school lunch, one of my friends proceeded to hold her cup to her mouth with her pinkie finger raised stiffly in the air.
When the rest of us asked her why she was waving her pinkie like that, she proceeded to inform us "heathens" that anyone who knows good table manners knows that it's polite to stick one's pinkie in the air when holding a cup! The rest of us "bit" - pardon the pun.
So that evening at supper, I picked up my cup and held my pinkie up straight, making sure my parents noticed.
Mom asked the inevitable question: "Why?" So I told her, with my nose also in the air, that people who had good table manners held their pinkies that way.
Dad almost choked on his coffee, while Mom looked at me as if she couldn't believe her ears. "Who told you that?" she demanded.
I named the girl. While Dad laughed outright, Mom told me that so-and-so was just putting on airs and pretending to be more sophisticated than the rest of us.
Needless to say, I wasn't allowed to "put on airs" in my own home, but some of us continued to put on airs at school until we got tired of doing so!
As you can see, this willow knows how to "put on airs."The end of the little branch with the various twigs sticking out of it looks to me for all the world like it knows how to raise its pinkie in the air!
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Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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PunctumSaliens
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Flo
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| May 17, 2012 @ 7:55am | Good question. Thanks, Roland.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Wes
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| May 17, 2012 @ 7:28pm | It is so gratifying to know that mother nature also has some rules of etiquette, Flo. I find this image quite moving for some reason but I can't pin point why. It is nice to look at an image and feel some inner stirring regardless of what it is.
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Flo
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| May 19, 2012 @ 5:55am | Thanks, Wes. Perhaps it's the skeletal nature of those bare twigs that stirs something in us. I too feel something - slightly sinister - but the humor for me over-rode the "death is stalking" macabre part.
Brings to mind the story of Hansel and Gretel when the witch stuck them in a cage to fatten them up. Gretel found a stick and used that in place of her finger to fool the nearly blind witch into thinking the kids weren't fattened yet.
I didn't want to mention this, unless someone else mentioned feeling something on a deeper level.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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