I ran into a security question the other day about a pet's name from years back. I could not think of the name, (Naturally, I did think of it about a half hour later.) I wanted to think of some possible fake names and "Anselm" came to mind. I don't know why. I am not familiar with the saints. Google tells me that there are more than ten thousand official Roman Catholic saints so I can't expect to master the list quickly.
I have no idea why "Anselm" [an solm] came to mind. I had heard of St. Anselm. I looked him up later and the little bit I read about the man didn't enlighten me much. I guess he lived about 1100 AD and was important in monastery and theological life of Europe at the time. I could not figure what brought his name to mind while writing, but I suspect I saw something about a Spanish-speaking person named "Anselmo".
My friend is a wide-ranging thinker and a highly educated man. He read my blog post and delighted me with a single word response: "Anselm?"
I don't know why his scooping up the weirdest word in my post and tossing it back to me delighted me so much but it did. I can savor a phrase or a comment for quite a while. It is much like thinking of a tune over and over.
My greatgrandson, exasperated with my advanced-level questions, said,'' Grandad, I'm just a kid!" I love that! I think of it often.
My greatgranddaughter explained her revised feelings about being a bit homesick, said,"In the grand scheme of things, a week is a short time." Love it!
Chade-Meng Tan said, “To meditate, you just need to have a mind”.
And now, to these, I add “Anselm?”
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It is He that hath made us and not we ourselves
Of the making of books, there is no end.
