Curiosa

Some mornings, the light at the Farm is so beautiful it should probably be outlawed. These moments are so transitory - ten minutes later this scene looked totally different, as the sun peeked in over the hillside behind.

Just found a nifty site about words. Packing my dopp kit (which isn't really one) for a coming trip, I became curious about the name itself. What's a dopp?

Here's the answer:

[Q] “What does the dopp in dopp kit (shaving bag) mean, and where did the term originate?”

[A] I am indebted to the American Dialect Society, and in particular to Jim Rader, for the answer to this question, which otherwise I couldn’t find in any of my reference books. The word Dopp is a registered trade mark of a man’s toiletry kit. It was designed by Jerome Harris for his uncle Charles Doppelt, a German immigrant to Chicago in the early 1900s. So it’s presumably an abbreviated form of Mr Doppelt’s family name. The word became widely known during the Second World War when GIs were issued Dopp kits. The company was purchased by Samsonite in the early seventies.

And here's the link to the website, that only an Englishman could construct:

www.worldwidewords.org

...and a bonus from an email by PositiviTee, a mom and daughters business which sells t-shirts and donates portions to worthy causes:

"I am cherry alive," the little girl sang,
"Each morning I am something new:...
I am red, I am gold, I am green, I am blue, I will always be me, I will always be new!"

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966)

Should you be curious about PositiviTee:

http://www.positivitee.com/browse.htm