1 August 18

Happy Birthday, Jonathan Albert Kleppinger! We've known each other for 30 years, and he heard my voice for months before he introduced himself. He requested this bow tie for today, with the provision that I "make sure people know it's green." Jonathan has a personal crusade to disrupt our ordinary color-category boundaries, and he wants you to see how the color of this tie actually falls better into "green" than "blue." (I don't always agree with my son!) So, I've attached a photo that compares the tie directly with the blue and green patches on a Band-Aids® box. Now you decide!