Well, almost never, almost never being defined as the first month I began blogging back in September 2007.
I wrote three posts that month.
But, he hastened to add, I didn’t begin blogging until the 28th of September in 2007, so three posts by the end of the month comes out to, let’s see, carry the 4, divide by 7, one per day unless I am sadly mistaken.
As one grows older, one discovers that one is sadly mistaken more and more of the time. Perhaps that has contributed to my general feeling of melancholy.
But six posts in the entire month of February? When there were 28 golden opportunities?
It’s downright sad.
The more observant among you may note that I still have nothing to say.
But today that didn’t keep me from posting.
Today is the birthday of my youngest grandson, the last of the six wee bairns, who is now officially a teenager.
Never fear. The press has been alerted and the authorities have been put on notice.
He sits first-chair trumpet in his school band and also just learned that he has been accepted on the school’s golf team.
His whole life stretches out in front of him.
Mine is mostly behind me.
Perhaps March, especially when it comes in like a lamb, makes one melancholy.
Tomorrow I hope to be in a better humor (Brit., humour).
Below is a a work of art by Tom Lemmens portraying the four humors (Brit., humours). Created on June 3, 2013, it is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
It reminds me of nothing so much as a stop sign.
According to Wikipedia, the four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Gk. melan chole), yellow bile (Gk. chole), phlegm (Gk. phlegma), and blood (Gk. haima), and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments.
The four temperaments is a psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types:
* Sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable)
* Choleric (ambitious and leader-like)
* Melancholic (analytical and literal)
* Phlegmatic (relaxed and thoughtful)
Here are the four temperaments - (L-R) choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic - on the wall of a house at the corner of Am Dornbusch and Eschersheimer Landstraße in Dornbusch, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The artist is unknown. The picture is a composite of four close-up photographs made by Peng on July 6, 2005, and is used here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version.
I hope I don’t resemble any of those faces.
I am certain of one thing, though. None of them ever sat first-chair trumpet or was accepted on the golf team.
