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Some online sources associate pink- and red-colored attire to a formal get-together for St. Valentine's Day.

They attribute mint-green and yellow attire to an informal get-together.

Is this an option always around or just recently?

(If a recent trend, is mint-green or yellow invoked traditionally by Feb. 14 celebrants?)

Online sources appear to associate animal cursedness with (all? some?) snakes.

They cite for serpentine cursedness Genesis 3:14-15, "So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

But have you heard about what Tibetan Buddhism identifies as animal cursedness? It's shaggy-coated, sharp-clawed, sharp-toothed animals!

Thank you for all the analyses, observations and suggestions.

The first action under the fifth subheading, Help ease the pain of grief, concerns "Roadside Memorials - A controversial subject."

Just down the road, at a grassy island, a teenaged girl died. Her mother has a statue of Our Lady Mary with (regularly changed cut, fresh) flowers. The accidental death is from before the COVID shutdown even as the mother never is one to miss a visit in 5-plus years.

Her daughter in her afterlife perhaps might feel so loved and remembered, mightn't one think, with such a lovely Marian memorial?

It must help her mother, not with her at the time of dying.

The roadside memorial commemoratively niches a pleasant place, in a predominantly rural historic county, across from a neighborhood convenience-store gas-station stop on one side and a horse farm on another and amidst country homes.

This wizzley is such a helpful resource.

The first through the third sentences to the first subheading, Why can't I come up with ideas?, considers that "My difficulty has always been the inability to come up with ideas which I feel confident enough to use in a story or a novel. No matter how hard I try I am unable to formulate a plot or even a character. Could this be the reason why I have written so few stories and no novels?"

Might it be possible for you to write some stories that then can be united into a novel?

In a way, the aforementioned technique would describe something like One thousand and one nights, wouldn't you think?

Thank you!

The first paragraph under the first subheading, The hare and the hedgehog (Fairy tales by Grimm Brothers), considers that "When we are talking about vintage German illustrators, fairy tales by Brothers Grimm came first to one's mind and Offterdinger was no exception."

The three lives somewhat overlapped: Jacob Grimm (Jan. 4, 1785–Sep. 20, 1863), Wilhelm Grimm (Feb. 24, 1786–Dec. 16, 1859) and Carl Offterdinger (Jan. 8, 1829-Jan. 12, 1889).

Would it be possible that the three knew one another?

I think that is the (literal) million-dollar question. When I show you my next book, I will show you. I think it is about the uniqueness of the theme.

We certainly do! I wouldn't have thought of that now that you have said it. It makes sense.

I certainly can - and will!

A small tree.

A committee of cardinals headed by the Secretary of state runs the church, and a cardinal called the Camerlengo organisesbthe funeral.

The pope did not design the garden, but his successor in the Vatican does not deal with matters of the gardening kind, he leaves the gardeners to deal with them. The Catholic Church is authoritarian about matters of Faith and morals, but as to other matters it is easy going.

Rowan trees are spread through the British Isles, naturally in rocky terrain, but in lowland areas as an ornamental.

They are growing in popularity.

There is some information in printed form, but not a great deal.

Lots of them. I don't bother with such predictions. When some one asks me whether I believe in the end of the world I reply "yes. It might be in five minutes, it might be a million years, but as I am seventy three unless it happens in the next thirty years it won't bother me." This usually ends the discussion.