Thursday, July 26, 2012

patience

an absolute cure all is a
Farfetched Fable
So practice patience to ease pain

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is 'panacea.' Among the citations, suggested panaceas for all physical ailments include: vodka with salt (Russia), bloodletting (France) and coffee (Starbucks? No, actually 19th century England!)

The sketch was done yesterday morning, as the Tribal Canoes Paddle to Squaxin left from Alki Beach en route to Puyallup.

4 comments:

Peggy said...

Wow. What a moment in time. I like the sense of history.

I'm good with Russia and England but France could do so much better. What, no wine?

alkiart said...

The quote was from 1652. I think that was a bad year for Bordeaux :)

Sadami said...

Ahahahaha!!! Susan, I love your humour!!

alkiart said...

Thanks, Sadami! :)