The disclaimer I have with respect to my answer is that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” What I mean is, that I may find a female beautiful, and even marvelous, even though others would disagree. I am looking through eyes of love, which is how I see my wife, and many other women.

The pictures you post are always beautiful, though not necessarily one’s preferred style of beauty. “Beauty” is an abstract concept. It transcends sexual preference or attraction. It may be a common means of agreement among diverse people.

[shifts feet nervously, looks nonchalantly up at the sky and whistles]

Ummmmm …………. regarding the painting by Jack Vettriano that you take credit for swiping from my blog, uhhhhhh ………., I actually swiped it from *your* Yahoo forum last Spring. So I get the credit for larceny and you get the credit for originality. :)

Thank you very much for your kind words about my blog, but there, too, the bouquet is yours as you were the one who gave me the idea to start a blog in the first place.

(I have another story I hope to finish this afternoon, and appropriately, it deals with swiping stuff.)

Watch out, or I’ll pilfer all sorts of things from you.

[slinks away, eyes darting from side to side on the lookout for witnesses]

Arafin