Yesterday, my wonderful, young, talented, kind, and intelligent son, Aaron, and I went for a long, interesting, meandering, delightful, and warm walk and had a delicious, nutritious, mid-day, reasonable, and shared meal together. I don’t have any colorful, observational, spontaneous, amateur, and stored photos of that long, interesting, meandering, delightful, and warm time we spent together, because I had left my large, modern, precious, annoying, and cellular phone behind.
During this delicious, nutritious, mid-day, reasonable, and shared meal, my wonderful, young, talented, kind, and intelligent son and I had a memorable, discursive, funny, important, and educational conversation, which included this:
Me: Somebody at my high school reunion last night used the adjective “intense” about me. I didn’t think I come across as intense. I think I’d prefer “deep.” What do you think about those adjectives for me?
Aaron: I wouldn’t use either of those to describe you.
Me: Really? What adjective would you use?
Aaron (thinking):
Me: Resilient?
Aaron (smiling and still thinking):
Me: Will you ever answer this?
Aaron: Probably not.
Me: Maybe I’ll ask you that question on my deathbed. Maybe I’ll say, “Aaron, NOW will you give me an adjective?” You know what you’d probably say,” Yes, now I will. It’s ‘dying.'”
Aaron (smiling and thinking):
Me: You know what? Maybe I should write a sketch about that for your new cable-access show.
Aaron: I was thinking the same thing.
Much later, Aaron handed me this:
Here are more colorful, observational, spontaneous, amateur, and stored photos I took yesterday:
Here‘s a recurring, favorite, beautiful, charming, and adorable song:
What adjectives might you use in an adorable, beautiful, delightful, exciting, and appreciated comment?
Authentic, hasty, meaningful, intense, and good thanks to Aaron, to my high school reunion classmates, to adjectives, to Mad Magazine, to the Waltham Massachusetts Market Basket, to “A You’re Adorable” and — of course! — to you.