Clark is the anti-George H.W. Bush: he eats broccoli almost every single day.

He's also the kind of guy who carries a handkerchief nearly everywhere he goes, though he uses them exclusively for hand drying and not not for blowing his nose. He picked up the habit in Japan where some of the toilet facilities lack hand drying mechanisms. I usually carry one around, too when I'm out of the country, but I don't have enough pocket space to keep one with me on a regular basis.

Clark is also a lot better than me about things like conserving and recycling. Everything that can be recycled in our house is carefully cleaned and sorted. He even collects and drops off things that are not covered by our weekly recycling pickup. That is something I would never take the time to do, so he makes me a better earthling just by living with me and handling my trash.



I embroidered a new hanky to add to his rotating collection emblazoned with his second(?) favorite vegetable (#1 is the Artichoke), and the one he eats the most often. I used crewelwork stitches, and the head of the broccoli is made of hundreds of tiny knots. I spent a lot of time on the broccoli, so it's a little shocking to see how small it is for the total number of stitches. I will probably stick to screen printing for my fabric embellishment needs.

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