The word 'perspicacious' simply popped into my head, for no apparent reason. I've seen the word in print many times, over the years, and today when it zapped my brain, I felt compelled to look up the meaning and then write a blog posting about it.
Of course, now that I've laid my thought 'out there', I have to produce. This will be the fun part.
I had an idea of the word's meaning but I was not certain so I went to the small Webster's Dictionary that I keep on the aqua RV and discovered that this small version doesn't even have the word 'perspicacious' in it. Some dictionary! I miss my big volume from home but it is too big and heavy to keep on the aqua RV and Capt. SO is very sensitive to adding additional anythings. Maybe a bag of feathers but that is about all he would OK.
I resorted to Googling the word and found that it means thoughtful with keen understanding, wise and insightful.
I instantly wondered if I would ever be described as behaving with perspicaciousness. Not likely now but maybe someday when I can barely move, see and breathe. Then I began a mental inventory of just what or who could be described as perspicacious, i.e. thoughtful with keen understanding - wise and insightful. A wise old owl, the old mouse from Teen-Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles, some peoples' grandparents (not us), Frank - the sixty-four inch Musky that never gets caught, the old man from Star Wars, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid........that was all I could think of on the spot.
I was able to think of some people who will never be described as perspicacious: Helen Thomas, the Chairman of BP and Hollywood starlets but then I could not think of anyone else to add to this list. Perhaps that is a good thing. Our world just may possess more individuals with perspicacity than previously thought.
I wonder if writing about being perspicacious will imbue me with perspicacity?
Tomorrow I'll write about beauty and brains.
Ancora imparo
