asparagus

the word asparagus brings to mind a picture of the green edible, on a fancy white platter with expensive gold edging, on a fancy white clothed table and some older, prim, woman, (see Mrs. Peacock here), across from you, gasping, with her hand on her throat, shocked, and rather indignant, of what you have just done, as you feel a mischievous grin growing on your face and the sparkle in your eye getting brighter.



asparagus

Sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη)

a Greek philosophical term

e t y m o l o g i c a l l y

meaning moral sanity and

from there self control

or moderation guided by

true self-knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophrosyne