Forgotten Treasures, Rediscovered, On My Desk

Sometimes you just need to find something that is probably on the bottom of the pile, under which is you desk. Such was the case last night. I never did locate what I wanted, but I did run into a few treasures which had managed to hide for a while.

A photo, taken by my brother in the town next to his near Quebec City, of a man riding a unicycle. He wrote, “Fete de l’eau” on the back. Maybe the tall unicycle is to make it across the high water, of which there is none during this feast of.

There is an obituary clipping of an elderly lady who, may she rest in peace and may God forgive me, looks like Tony Curtis in drag, in “Some Like It Hot.”

I also have a sub-head from an article on the local Catholic schools. It mentions that “Closings are hurting enrollments.” I guess that’s a truth we can take to be self-evident.

There is a sturdy metal fish Christian symbol with a section at the bottom which, if you hold it by the fins, can be pushed inward by your thumb, leaving a lower front section in place. I have no idea what it’s for, but in small print, the moveable section says, “Not for climbing.” Someday, I will have to find out What Would Jesus Do with this thing.

I also keep a model train locomotive on my keyboard. It’s a Southern Pacific, now taken over by the Union Pacific. It’s accurate enough, but the Chinese didn’t know it should have an “F” on one end to signify which is the legal front.