The Darndest Things

"Mom, what's a metaphor?"
"It's like when when I say, 'Dad is a rose'."
"Really? I thought it was a stone that fell from the sky."

Learning

The year I turned forty, I finally learned how to bake a potato properly. It wasn't hard to learn; I just hadn't given it much thought before. There must be many such things I still have left to learn.

Kit and Caboodle*

The causal and moral orders.

The world and our history.

The conceptual and emotional apparati.

The webs of belief and desire.

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*A kit - is set of objects, as in a toolkit, or what a soldier would put in his kit-bag. / A caboodle (or boodle) - is an archaic term meaning group or collection, usually of people.