Language Fast Food: and then some

Friday, February 3, 2023

and then some

We have been blessed with resources to meet our needs ... and then some. (Informal phrase defined: “and plenty more than that.”) Life on Earth provides opportunities to grow, and much more.

At the University of Utah, Kay Hinckley & I learned music appreciation and plenty more ... about love. Homework assignments to attend concerts got us going together. We studied and loved classical music ... and then some. After 51 years of marriage, we’ve only just begun ... to live.

Quotes

"No choicer gift can any man give to another

than his spirit's intimate converse with itself."

– Schleiermacher

as quoted by author Louis L'Amour in his memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, p. 143; (not the greatest gift, in my opinion, but I love it)

"Words are power. Words are the mechanism for our self-expression, our connection to the world, our way of defining ourselves to that world." -- Deborah Blake, technical writer and poet, S-E 6/27/2000

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (St John 8:12)

For Roald Dahl Day, 9/13/2012:
"... one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century." -- Deseret News 9/11/2012, pg C-6

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
-- Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach and 20 other children's books

"A truly educated man never ceases to learn."
-- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation."
-- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl; first published in Austria 1946, translated in 1959.

"Carpe diem!"