Bear Paws Go Rawr

At a farmer's market in Irvine, I bought this adorable succulent! It is called a bear paw. And each fleshy leaf really does resemble one! The thick, bulbous leaves have little red spikes on them, which are similar to claws. I was told they would turn green if the plant needed more light. So cute! And easy to care for. I have named it Ours-de-Vent. Sometime soon, hopefully tomorrow or even tonight, I will purchase a pot and fertilizer for him. While wandering about, I also bought some fruits and vegetables, a dark chocolate-sea salt Pokemon macaroon, pomegranate juice, apple-peach juice, a coconut pop, and a blackberry-nectarine pop. A catering company called Front Porch Pops were vending there.

My high school entered a new book into the AP Language and Composition class curriculum. The horrific reception the book it was replacing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey, probably encouraged the academic heads to dismiss it. I have no negative opinion of the novel, since I never read it before, but I appreciate the decision to get rid of it since now I have the opportunity to savor the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. The autobiography itself is a solemn thing, depicting the acts of human cruelty that once symbolized the South. The treatment the African slaves of that time had to undergo because of prejudiced American Southerners was gruesome and sometimes fatal. I express my thanks that Douglass was able to write this narrative. I am reading it tonight!