"Stay on the ball" to strive to be FORtunate ... note that FORtune is fickle, short lived, neither good nor bad ... FORtuna is fond of her sisters that Ferret Fatal Fate. Many hope that FORtuna is not FORtuitous and say that diaPHOResis from hard work transpires into good fate ... many will expire from transpiration and not find euPHORia nor FORtuna in the perspiration of work - Balzac said "behind great FORtunes hide great crimes" and the ancients said to pray to "Serendip idy" to find an amPHORA with honest Fortuna. Fortune arriving is as Clear as a CLARinet but ... fortunate tramps who trumpet, like CLARions, their "self-worth" invite their Fatal Fates. I urge you to toast with CLARet the artists, poets and architects that CLARify our ideas about Fortuna.

Aphrodite (continued) ... Venus and Perishable Adonis and Anemone ... Anemometer

Adonis, the mortal version of Eros was the symbol of supreme masculine beauty and adored by Aphrodite who left Olympus for him. Ovid noted; "she made a pillow for him of her breast, and kisses for her story's punctuation ... " but she failed to convince Adonis that "beauty and youth and love make no impression ... on animal eyes and minds" ... Adonis left and perished ... The wildflower Anemone is a symbol of perishable blood named in honor of the "wind born" Aphrodite and her profound love and devotion to a mortal.