Peas on earth

When MLK became a leader

For Black History Month, here's an article about how Martin Luther King, Jr. became a leader and gave a great speech without much, if any, time to prepare what he would say.  The article is really very much worth reading.

Words with double letters

Colleen of Loose Leaf Notes noticed that the word committee has three double letters.  Yeah, look at it:

1. double m
2. double t
3. double e

I know another word with three double letters:  bookkeeper has double o, double k, and double e.

I guess I've always noticed double letters because of my own name:  Bonnie.  Can you think of other names with double letters?  Does your name have double letters?  I just noticed that Colleen's name has double letters twice.  Here are some names with double letters that popped into my head, mostly people I know:

                            

Allen          Alyssa         Ann          Barry        Betty        Billy           Bonnie 

Brooke      Charlotte     Colleen    Donna      Donnie     Ellen          Emma

Eileen        Ella             Ellen        Freddie     Ginny       Hannah     Isaac

Jeff            Jimmy         Kendall    Kenneth    Lee          Lillian         Lynn

Matthew    Nikki            Phillip      Russell      Sally        Tommy       William

In case you wonder, no, I didn't think of these names in alphabetical order.  I see that many of the names on my list are nicknames, like Billy is a nickname for William.  (He's my brother, by the way.  Ann's my sister, and Jimmy's my "baby" brother.  Now in his 70s, he goes by Jim, and his son is called Jimmy.)

Two cows on TWOsday

Pondering a couple of ideas

I'll try to add a few things in the comments, too.

It's Sunday, but Monday's coming

This photo shows the outside of "the link" between the two buildings of the Crown Center.  I'm showing it today because the link between the Tallin building (on the left, ten stories high) and the Weinberg building (on the right, eight stories high) will be torn down tomorrow.  The doors have already been closed, so both ends are shut off, and we have to walk outside (in the snow, this week!) to get from one building to the other.

This photo shows the hallway between the two buildings, with what we call the "link desk" in the center.  That door on the right, just beyond the "link desk," opened to the Weinberg Lounge.  It's part of that link, behind the windows on the right in the top picture.  Tomorrow's demolition is the beginning of construction of a new building where the (former) back parking lot has now been fenced off.

This heart of snow represents the snow still on the ground here in St. Louis.  We had two inches on Wednesday and seven more inches on Thursday, for a total of about nine inches.  The wind blew it into drifts between cars in our parking lot, drifts which looked to me like a couple of feet deep, at least in the wind-swept peaks of the drifted snow.  What can you do, with snow on the ground?  Read!  So what books have been on my agenda?

I read 13 books in January, but I confess that I've been doing more writing on my blog in February than reading.  Nothing has grabbed me.  I woke up today resolved to read something exciting, and I've decided that means The Midnight Library by Matt Haig I wrote about it at the end of January (click the title link).  I never sat down and read it, so that's today's book.  Yes, I think I'll start right now.  Ta-da!

Deb at Readerbuzz hosts Sunday Salon.

Coyote Tracks, anyone?

The first Saturday in February is National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day.  Before there was snow on the ground this week, I went shopping and stocked up on food for me and for my cat Clawdia.  One of the things I got was Coyote Tracks ice cream, my store's version of Moose Tracks.  I had ice cream sandwiches on hand already, so I'm ready for this "national" day, no matter what kind of ice cream I'm in the mood for.