Epicurus wrote this quote in a toga years before our lifetime. I don’t find any glory after overcoming a laborious circumstance or situation. When it’s over, I’m relieved only to prepare for life’s next shitshow.
Let’s talk about pies instead.
Listed are my top three. They are listed not only for their taste, but for the memories that they trigger.
Obviously my number one pie is associated with my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. I should probably include an apple pie for my other favorite holiday, but strawberry-rhubarb pies are connected with Fourth of July for me.
Let’s not get confused between a Hoosier sugar pie and a Hoosier legged-peach pie. A Hoosier sugar pie is a custard pie made with butter, flour, cream and sugar sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. It doesn’t have any eggs because eggs were expensive during the depression when this pie became popular.
So the Hoosier pie fits today’s quote. It was made because times were difficult and money was tight. Eventually things improved and this delectable dessert found its glory…
… glory found in tummies from Logansport to Vincennes.
It’s firmly raining and my pillows are cold, so I’m packing up the typewriter and going to lay in bed for a little while longer.
Don’t let your socks get wet today and don’t forget to be astonished.
If Thursday is a hurdle… fly over that sonofabitch and land into a pile of glory.
Glory doesn’t stain your clothes like shit does!
