the essential uselessness of some things

An onion, a bowl, a spoon. Useful things, the distance say between a potter and a poet, though one may be, at times, the other.

Some people eat poems, as instructed by William Carlos Williams.

Everything pictured here has a point to its life, a meaning. The bowl is especially beautiful, made by a woman skilled in both the making of bowls and of good food, the spoon a necessary accessory.

Blessed also are the ones who empty the bowl.

I've always liked what Gary Player, the great golfer, said when asked what he'd learned after spending nearly a lifetime in golf: 'that I know a whole lot about nothing.'

Now that's the spirit.