Language Fast Food: A Calendar Year

Sunday, December 31, 2017

A Calendar Year

The end is near. Here in Michigan, it's only several hours away – the end of 2017. Interesting twelve months for Kay and me, as you can see.

Kay at Aztec Ruins National Monument, northwest NM

grandson taking care of bunnies on Arza's camp chairs in the far West

Detroit Michigan Temple

Roseville Ward mission "cookie splits"

no problem with SE Michigan snow at Roseville Ward

Family gathering in front of Provo Utah Temple by our MTC

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!"