Agnes by Tony Cochran for May 16, 2020

Agnessing. An extreme case of verbing a noun.

Unearthly is the very word to describe her.

Becoming a Shape Shifter, Agnes, might be one ticket to “Unearthly Beauty!”

In my family, growing up, my Dad thought my mother’s youngest sister, my Aunt Mary, talked too much, and her voice was too loud.

So if I or one of my siblings were chattering away he’d sarcastically say something like “Be quiet, Mary!”

Or “Well… aren’t you an Aunt Mary today.”

It didn’t make my mother too happy….

and, as far as I know, Aunt Mary, unlike Agnes, never learned of his little “joke.”

I guess that’s cos we were taught never to “trout”.

I think Agnes and Trout could make an awesome TicTok video.

We don’t know yet.. but few artists portray alien life forms as anything approaching “beauty”

Darn! I never learned how to paint on cheekbones. Maybe I will take that up since I have nothing better to do these days.

Some sweet little child would say, “Mr. Green, they’re saying mean things about you behind your back.”

“Great! What I don’t know doesn’t bother me. So please avoid giving any details.”

They meant well.