PETER APPEALS TO A HIGHER COURT | 2006-01-18
I have a Big Sister.
She is a little over half my size and is well into her seventies.
My Big Sister is the sweetest person you will ever meet and is willing to do anything for you.
But she is one of those Southern Females. Which means that she scares the hell out of us Tough Southern Males.
In Japan, Gone With the Wind is STILL the most popular show.
Why? Because Japanese women consider it the ultimate explanation of themselves. On the surface, a woman is to be altogether feminine, smiling and accommodating.
Scarlette O'Hara had not a trace of the masculine in her.
But a shrinking violet Scarlette was not.
Which is why a very popular movie about Southern women was called, "Steel Magnolias."
My sister is a very sweet, completely feminine piece of tungsten steel. She doesn't scare me exactly, but I know how to stay out of the way.
I talked to my Big Sister today. She reads this blog and she wondered where Peter was.
She thinks Peter is great.
By an odd coincidence, I decided today that Peter is great, too. That doesn't mean I'm skeert of my Big Sister.
All it means is that discretion is the better part of valor.
I ain't skeert.
I just have one hell of a lot of discretion.