Funcast: On Being Silly

Storyteller Joe Paris notified me that he had mentioned me in a blog post titled "Sillymorphing." And in deed, he had. He wrote:

"...my Uncle Mose (short for Mozart)...claimed there was something in the crisp air and chaotic scramble of activity at a fall festival that inspired some folks to become 'sillymorphs,' and he was all for that, inasmuch as he was one of that ilk.

"He believed evolving into a 'sillymorph' - the word is from the Latin silliomorphus, 'to undergo a change from the overly-serious nincompoop you usually are to the lighthearted, child-like, fun-loving nincompoop you should aspire to be' - greatly increases the chances that you will laugh more, love more, and live a more interesting, if not happier or longer, life."

Though my photo and my fun logo are writ large in his post, I, myself, as well me, personally, are not actually the topic of the post, but rather as a valdating reference, as that of another authority on the nature of silliness.

Which is, in its own way, peculiarly delicious. Fulfilling, as it were, my purpose in retrospect. Insofar as I curently find myself and almost everything I do in near total agreement with Mr. Paris and Uncle Mose.

For more silliness, listen to today's FunCast: "The Secrets of Silly and Serious."