when five and two is not seven
74°F 82% and a gentle cool breeze seven floors up. The day promises to warm to 88° but for now is pleasant and should be for Monday’s outside walk in the Cove. Okay, I admit, I don’t get it, from a “text” website this watercolor, ink, gouache titled “Feeding of the 5,000” by Ian Pollock. In fact, looking at some of Pollock’s other works just now, it’s the first thing I recall coming across that exemplifies the idiom beggars description. The bread knife I do see, in fact we have one like it but with a white handle instead of red. And maybe this below is a ravenously hungry multitude. But I just don’t get it, Ian. But I do enjoy the gospel story for this coming Sunday morning and especially the Sunday school discussion that goes along with it, comparing Matthew’s narrative built around a saying for the same dynamic, compassionate “work of power” in Mark and Luke, and contrasting it with the pointedly purposeful “sign” in the Gospel according to John, who seems to ha