Sitting the 4Runner waiting, not even sure for what, window down and this huge bug landed in on the mirror. Good camera in the back seat but if I reached for it I was sure it would leave, so I got a crappy phone shot. Put the phone down and then we waited togther.
I had this thought: ‘It must be vain, my mirror is now its vanity.’ It has never occurred to me that a ‘vanity’ must be called that because of ‘vain,’ OR is it the other way around? Either way, I never thought about them being connected. Phone back in hand, I was now down a rabbit hole of word origins. They are connected. “Vanity” is simply the noun form of the adjective “vain”. Both words originate from the Latin root vanus, which means “empty” or “void” from the 14th century. The connection to a mirror comes from the noun vanity, which eventually came to refer to the piece of furniture itself in the 18th century. Did you know the table with the mirror was once called the ‘toilet table’? People really sucked at naming things back then.
Anyway, I put the phone back down, and the bug was gone. I never promised all these posts would be good.
tr/trp
Good picture of nature! Did I tell you that you are starting to bug me…. sometimes I write the first thing that pops into my mind…. sorry. You are a clean slate every day.