Here's to the Dearly Beloved
Gentlemen:
Oscar Levant was asked what made a successful piano virtuoso. "Five essential things are required," he said. "Talent, imagination, energy, determination — and a very rich wife."
I thought of that when this morning the dearly beloved pointed to my Schwarzweisskeramik scuttle and said, "Is this new? What happened to the other one?"
"You mean my Moss scuttle and Ayars lather bowl?" I said, pointing to them in my stash closet shelf. "I use them for my smaller brushes."
She nodded with a patient smile and shuffled away. On another occasion she pointed to the racks lined with straight and double edge razors and said, "They grow like rabbits."
Not that the dearly beloved is rich with money. No, the dearly beloved is rich with an angel's patience — for putting up with my shaving passions and idiosyncrasies.
Tell me, gentlemen, how does your dearly beloved handle your shaving passions and idiosyncrasies?