Chesterton and his Tremendous Trifles

a tremendous trifle

 G.K. Chesterton could write about almost everything and make it... entertaining...amusing... profound,,,.mysterious...and, yes, sometimes a little weird. In one essay, he imagined lying in bed and drawing on the ceiling. In another, he filled his pockets with colored chalk, got some brown paper from the old woman in the kitchen, and went out walking and drawing. Speaking of pockets, he once wrote an entire essay on the contents of his pockets. Once he was challenged by the police as he stopped in the woods and practiced knife throwing at a tree. He mostly missed. And then there was the weird tale of his ride on a train carrying a dead body. His book of essays, Tremendouos Trifles, is filled with essays about nothing and everything and is, indeed, "tremendous" and one of my favorites!

Leading a Honeybee Life!

I think of myself as a honeybee. I flit from project to project, from book to book, from household task to household task like a little bee collecting nectar. Sometimes I start cleaning intending to do an entire floor and switch to something new after finishing one room. Often a distraction becomes the next project. Hey, that door is absolutely grimy; get out the soap and water and give it a good cleaning. And then there are the minor disasters like opening the refrigerator and having a jar of soup water fall out and shatter like last night while I was fixing dinner. (I don't waste anything including the water left from steaming vegetables or cooking potatoes. They make great soup stock.) Clean that up and move on to something else or just pick up the glass, cover the mess with towels and clean it up after dinner which is what I did.