October 2013

reality

Home on the Range….

I wasn’t aware that there was some secret date upon which the cosmos decrees that your life should fall apart, or at least the pieces that make your life enjoyable such as: 1. Showers – Some time in late August our bathroom shower decided to fall apart – tiles fell off the wall, shower heads […]

poetry, words

What in the Samhain….?

The celtic feast of Samhain is Oct 31. It’s a time when the veil between our world and the nether world, the world of spirits, is very thin. I have written about Samhain before. It is a time of mourning, a time of connecting with those who have gone before us and a time of

words

T9 and the Next Generation

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We all know that language changes over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes and other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage also changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a regular formation. For example we rarely, if

words

TLDR or TMI

I laughed the first time I read the letters TLDR, which mean “too long, didn’t read.” It’s a text or twitter phrase, which not so politely tells you your communication was too long. Alas, we live in an abbreviated world. We like short quick blasts of information, preferably of the more exciting kind – dare

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