Agnes by Tony Cochran for December 16, 2019

And what’s this thing about beauty being in the eye of the bee holder? Who is it that holds bees?

Unfortunately, the text that Agnes either wrote, or is reading, is a bit garbled, and also missing the verb…. further confusing the meaning.

Maybe she meant “A truly good person is one whom within(?) no evil can BE beheld” … you can’t “beheld” something on its own… but that’s still awkward.

I think she means… “A truly good person is one within whom no evil is beheld.”

Better…

“A truly good person is one within whom thou canst behold no evil.”

Verily… as you and Trout are likely to agree … there’s a reason we don’t speak like that any more.

Besides any confusion about holding bees… or cans holding evil bees.

Don’t worry, bee happy!

Haste makes waste!

But he who hesitates is lost!

The early bird gets the worm!

But you don’t want to be the early worm!

There’s more than one way to skin a cat!

But there ain’t no way that the cat’s gonna like it! – Jed Clampett

I like the random bits of odd junk lying around on the floor.

Good is an inside trait, not just what shows on the outside of a person.

Good is defined by society which means some of one society could consider the other’s views on good an evil to be skewed and incompatible.

Impressed that she remembered the words; even if they weren’t exact!