June 3, 2023:
For a time in childhood I deliberately wore mismatched socks.
One green one blue; one red one yellow. Any combination. Where the goal was in part to surround myself with ever more cheerful color, in part to claim militant difference to the herds of herds.
My mother's uncle said — one of very few expressions of humor I remember from any of that dysfunctional bunch — "He has another pair just like it at home."
Nice one.