While I believe that a person does learn something new every day, I'm always surprised when that something new hits me like a revelation.  This happens when something I've seen or heard suddenly appears to have new link, something I hadn't ever realized before.  And when this happens, I can't stop thinking about it, wondering why I never made the connection before then.  And as a result, I can't stop talking about it either.  Sort of like that time that I realized that "Twinkle Twinkle" and "ABC" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep" all share the same tune, it hit me like a ton of bricks and I wondered how I could have gone through so many years of life without knowing it before.  And I asked EVERYBODY if they KNEW IT TOO, as if the world had been conspiring to keep it from me.

Last week, I had another revelation, brought on I think by the combination of two activities I've done before, but never at the same time.  Sophie and I started reading "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Marty and I started watching Twin Peaks on DVD.  And that's when I could see that not only did Betty Briggs have a husband with mysterious disappearances:


she was also Miss Beadle.


When I realized that the two were one in the same (thanks to Ms. Charlotte Stewart) I ran downstairs to tell Marty.  "Do you know who Betty Briggs is?" I asked him.  "It's MISS BEADLE!  You know, from LITTLE HOUSE?"

"Yeah, okay, I can see that now," he answered, but not in the OMG sort of way you might expect, more in the deadpan "I never expected Miss Beadle to come up so often in real-life conversation when I married you" sort-of-way.  But honestly, who else do YOU think of when you hear about Lemon Verbena.  What, it doesn't come up that often for you?  Interesting.