When everyone you know is smarter than you.

My husband is in law school and is brilliant. He has to the capasity to retain information that boggles my mind. I am always impressed with the useless information he has stored & can retrieve at any opportunity. My mind just doesn't work that way. I have a wealth of information in a handful of areas. However my ability to retireve it at the right time never seems to happen. I am never seen as an expert in any field. (Except opinions- I am good at that one! This is the area I am sure my husband would love for me to be void of.) For instance Kitchens, I was once a kitchen designer so I have some knowlege of kitchen products, cabinets, fixtures, etc. However the eternal decorator will call her friend before calling me whenever she has a kitchen dilema.

I would like to say I purposely surround myself with the intellectual superior but the truth is I don't. They find me! Am I the problem that needs fixing, the wheel that needs oil, the floor that needs mopping? Not sure but it is nice to have people of mental greatness contributing to my life. It's great to know I have someone I can call on if I need a great Chesterton quote, or a boring theological thought of Hussey. Or a fact of law. Or a computer malfunction. Or a decorating dilema. Or the proper way to organize my home with an artistic flare. All of these things represent an important person in my life I can count on in the event my knowledge is limited. Thank God for the smarter public. I am so grateful.