Prompt Challenge: Perspicacious

perspicacious, adj; Having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.

This week’s challenge word was much easier than last week, at any rate I could use it in a sentence! First I listed people who I thought were perspicacious, and wondered how they got that way. This lead me to the word “understanding” in the definition and I started to go pretty far afield. I thought perhaps these koans might be something to look at. But then I found this John Lennon quote

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

I’d been playing with the turkish map fold from a few weeks ago and wanted to use it for this week’s word, incorporating text in the map folds, not just pictures or relying on colors. So I made a list of things that made me happy to use with the Lennon quote. I printed my list on the front and back of the sheets I would use for the folds as well as the cover. I even used paper and colors that made me happy.
Here’s the result (to see how to make this book, see the instructions here).This one is really a personal book as everyone’s happy list is different. I’ve got it displayed above my workbench, knowing it will make me happy, months from now, just looking at it.
perspicacious

Next word: slimsy, adj. flimsy; frail. a blend of slim and flimsy.