mixin' up a 'Ff'lo

[fflo]

How to make a fflo

Ingredients: 1 part intelligence 3 parts courage 1 part empathy

Method: Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add wisdom to taste! Do not overindulge!

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Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

I'm shy about claiming that much courage, but I think maybe I do have more than I'd once thought.

"Courage" is a great word, you know. It really means heart. They come from the same root, and in Middle English, with that old-fashioned pronunciation, courage is a highly honored value---but it means something we don't really think of now, when we use it with its contemporary connotations. There's emotion involved. There's strength of heart, and willingness to care about others. It's part of the system of courtesy---another word with very specific roots in a practice of civility, back when there was a much clearer way of knowing the difference between brutish and civil behavior.

Back to the cocktail---and its instructions: I do tend to overindulge. . . .

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Natch, you have tons o' empathy. And success seems appropos, as I think you can probably do just about anything you put your mind to, albeit not necessarily in an instant (but who can do that). Silliness? Maybe your enthusiasm for a particular piece of art or artist bubbling over into an almost giddy appreciation? I have seen that version of light-hearted glee in you more than once, happily enough.

(Confidential to upsidedownblue: hell if I know! No, seriously---some news will out soon-ish, perhaps by the end of the day. Stay tuned.)

(BTW, have you heard anything from vachementmoi since she got to town? I've been meaning to give her a call, once she's over the jet lag.)