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May.09.2012
Daily Writing Tips covered some military slang, which spurred memory. Memory didn't need much spurring. I use several of these phrases routinely even though my military uniform and all its obligations have been long set aside. These words, and their attitudes, have military roots but they live and...
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May.05.2012
I was sitting in a church auditorium recently, listening to a preacher talk about the power words have on us all, both written and spoken, and the great impact they convey to those around us. It was a well articulated speech, causing me to think about how large a role words play in our lives....
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Apr.29.2012
I am recovering from a drawn out case of laryngitis. During this time, there was one particular day when I could not speak. My throat hurt too much. Because I am currently between jobs, I was able to indulge the laryngitis, and allow it to take its time over its tantrum. ...
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Apr.26.2012
Okay, this appeals to word lovers but people who like data may also enjoy it.
First, I've just discovered Ideas Illustrated through Good Morning Silicon Valley. I like the site and its presentations. They present...ideas...illustrated....
Ideas Illustrated shows English word, suffix and root...
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Apr.22.2012
A friend posted about a gift she was given because of something she wrote. The recent tragedy of my grandson's unexpected (and so far unexplained) death earlier this week brought people together to offer their condolences and we shared our grief in a very public way. The obituary about Connor's...
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Apr.07.2012
A conversation begins
with a lie. and each
speaker of the so-called common language feels
the ice-floe split, the drift apart
as if powerless, as if up against
a force of nature
A poem can begin
with a lie. And be torn up.
Adrienne Rich, Cartographies of...
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Mar.19.2012
If you like (indeed - need) words which splurge, Robert Pirosh was your man. As this letter he wrote to land a Hollywood scriptwriting job shows, he loved them far beyond the bounds of drudgery and cant.
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I like words
When copywriter...
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Mar.05.2012
The saying that sticks and stones can break your bones but words will never hurt you, never lived in the real world. Words hurt more. They cut deeper and their memory remains forever. Words spoken are tough, words written are even tougher, words plastered across the internet and television are...
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Mar.04.2012
Words and Music by Metta Sáma
EXCERPTS:
“King’s book is not quiet; hers is an aesthetics of sound fractured, fragmented, compounded, mixed, remixed, sampled, jointed, yes, even anointed. (Check out the cover of this book, it’s sparseness of image, this blaringly red background, these...
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Feb.28.2012
All I wanted, this morning, was coffee.
I sleepwalked towards the nearest authorised dealer and staggered into Starbucks. "Flat latte", I mumbled through my somnolent haze.
The trademark cheerful foreign language student in the green apron didn't react. I had entered the...
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