Day 1,887: valedictory, scold, rambling

For a start she is not Joe Biden, who showed in a valedictory speech in Chicago that age has turned him into a scold.

Americans now know she worked at McDonald’s and that every year she teases her husband by playing the rambling voicemail he left asking her for a first date.

Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. But how would she govern?

Artwork of the day 
An Eavesdropper with a Woman Scolding
Nicolaes_Maes
Date: 1655
Style: Baroque
Genre: genre painting
Location: Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK

Word of the day 
valedictory: relating to saying goodbye, especially formally:
scold: to speak to someone angrily because you disapprove of their behaviour:
rambling: too long and confused:

Quote of the day
“Taking these things into consideration, while blinking stupidly at Dr. Z, I resolved to retire gracefully, if I must; so, with a valedictory to my boys, a private lecture to Mrs. Waldman, and a fervent wish that I could take off my body and work in my soul, I mournfully ascended to my apartment, and Nurse P. was reported off-duty.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches