#1 “I invested all my money in debt.” Hamish Bowles, Vogue fashion journalist. I would have guessed Mark Twain, especially since I’d never heard of Hamish Bowles until recently. This quote (even if exaggerated) is so clever and pithy that I’m just glad it’s been said.
#2 I’ve got a soft spot for anyone named Hamish, even it anyone is a pet pig. Our daughter’s name for this little porker was delicious foreshadowing. As far a pigs go, his life was charmed. A squeaky grunt and another bottle appeared.
#3 In Yiddish, Hamish means homey or cozy. What’s not to like?
It’s easy to imagine the four legged Hamish embracing homey and cozy, words that don’t immediately bring to mind the two-legged Hamish. But the more I read about Mr. Bowles, the more plausible it seemed. “I think that my interior is like an autobiography through objects.” Even if his interior looks over-the-top to me, I think he means that it’s comfortable to him. It’s his cozy home.
About investing in debt, I think Bowles was mostly being witty, because as the four-legged Hamish knows, a happy home doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. A loving human, a swim in the creek and a crate of full bottles- pig paradise.
Hamish, three ways!