“You can’t make a purse out of a sow’s ear” is the thought that had John going the other day so. Right in the middle of a conversation we’d been having on politics he fit in, “If you took the sow’s ear, cut side up, and split it open, with an ear shape on both sides, you could safety pin a handle to the thing, and there you are. A purse!” then he continued with his political statement. He did this over and over all day, verbally modifying ears into a plethora of purses, usually as an attachment to completely foreign subjects.
He doesn’t just think about women’s accessories, he follows through occasionally. An example of which is the Mother’s Day gift I received a few years ago. Because the beholding eyes were mine, the resulting purse was unique and beautiful in spite of it being made of a short piece of webbing , two large safety pins and a GARDENING GLOVE!    nancymauerman.com