This
one is not about English language,
though I’m tempted to vent frustration over changes since my young
sentence-diagramming years; (yes, I still wince – “a slight involuntary grimace … in anticipation of pain
or distress”, as Google defines it.) “I've
gotta be free ... I've gotta be me!" (the song does it to me.) Furthermore, I am not naming the students at our
favorite high school (with the "kneeling knight") who fail to
understand present progressive tense.
And
it’s not about food, even with
another coupon-drive story waiting in the wings; (grandkids in the car bring
back fun memories of our five we took to a string of drive-through fast-food
restaurants in “the Buck” or “the Wart Hog” – a fun tradition to be repeated
soon, I hope. Yum!)
This post is not about the Church, through
which instruction from modern-day prophets was broadcast to the world last
weekend – so needed in this turbulent time.
Nor does it relate to genealogy (family history – another favorite of
mine) as a fun activity to develop a forever family. As a side note, I am registered for RootsTech 2015, to be held Feb.
11-14 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. (rootstech.org: "Celebrating Families")
As a complete aside, it's free to share
random, unrelated thoughts, observations and experiences, maybe starting an
annual, tangential tradition for this blog’s anniversary month. Liken it to a brief (always fast – the one
constant here) pause on a sidetrack while the freight train of the world roars
by.
Clearing
the basement the other day (still struggling with OCH, but making progress), I
was excited to find one (TIME, June
6, 2011) I had not yet read about “The Science of Optimism”, which gave me a needed break, asking, “Hope isn’t rational – so why are humans wired for it?” by
Tali Sharot. Wish I could legally copy the
cover, a whimsical diagram of the brain.
(So that’s what it looks like inside my head! – explains a lot lately.)
I
see room for two more disjointed items; (Google defines as “lacking a coherent
sequence or connection” – kinda like this complete aside.)
My
Notepad has one from 11/15/2012: Fox News interviewed Joseph Braude, author of The Honored Dead, in a discussion about
Iran.
(See book info. at josephbraude.com/books/the-honored-dead/overview/)
He used
the kith-and-kin phrase referring to people in neighboring countries, in
relation to disenfranchised Iranians (non-Persians). So what are your plans for gift-giving and
entertaining kith and kin this holiday season?
