OK, I promised you more “wild art.” How’s this? I drew this to be the cover of my book. Beaucoup Arlo & Janis, but I chickened out. I didn’t want to have to listen to all the juvenile giggling and hooting which I knew would ensue (No, not you!) or to that annoying tut-tutting about children reading the comics. I told you: I chickened out. Instead, I went with a more staid version of a Rodin theme which I thought turned out well enough.
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All language mavens: FYI. A major problem over the last decade or more.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2014/oct/24/mind-your-language-literally
Another bit for language mavens. Our current potus is less guilty than most of overuse of “I”,* and there’s is, in the graph, no apparent correlation of that trait with party or ego problems. When I copyedit my own stuff, I find ways to minimize it; we’ve all been taught the ‘never say I’ bit, which has seriously inflated professional scientific prose: ‘Sherman live traps were set in a grid . . ..” vs. “I set . . ..” or “We set . . ..” One can minimize it and still “Use the active voice” [ch. 2, Elementary principles of composition, in Strunk & White’s ‘Elements of Style’.]
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15355
*which he is being accused of.
Emb, I am not quite up with you yet, but getting pretty close to 60. I was speaking of the decade of my 20’s, age wise, when I was pretty much self-centered, as most young things are. I was always respectful and tried to be kind and considerate, but when I look back, I don’t think I was anyways as thoughtful to others as I should have been. I guess I appreciate maturity a lot more than I appreciated youth, and I’m speaking of spiritual and emotional maturity more than physical. Like you say, when you have been through loss of loved ones (so thankful my husband of 31 years is still with me), and hard times, you are better able to offer comfort to others when they go through the same things. And yes, the world has changed a great deal even in my life, and I know more in yours; it is hard to imagine what new technology may be ahead, and I don’t really look forward to it! May you have many more good years ahead of you! On another note, the word “rapture” is used by Christians to describe the taking away of Christians on earth to heaven by Jesus. Though the word rapture is not in the Bible, the words “caught up” is in 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The word rapturo (Latin) means “caught up” so that is why this event is called the rapture.
‘Granny Carol’, by itself, conjures up a much older person. <60! You're just a kid, but wise beyond your years.
On a different topic, many of our ancestors thought this sort of thing:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hawaii-volcano-lava-prompts-evacuation-concerns-26461288
happened because someone hadn't properly appeased a volcano god, or even the one God, and some still do. 'It's because of the centerfolds in Playboy!' I'm a person of faith, but don't think I'd build downslope from Kilauwea [sp.], on a flood plain, near the San Andreas fault, or on that highly 'developed' slope west of Mt. Rainier, itself a lovely slush pile of rock and ice.
Peace, emb
Granny Carol: Your words are full of wisdom.
Thank you for your kind words, emb and Galliglo. I’m still learning, every day. This forum has taught me quite a few things already! 🙂
Back during the late 1960’s while living in Hawaii, we ended up having a variety of appeasements done on a government building project that apparently disturbed sacred Hawaiian grounds. I know because I actually handled some of the injury cases that prompted this event. People kept being injured, accidents happened inexplicably and bizarre occurrences pursued the project. I can’t remember if they had Christian ministers and priests involved or just Hawaiian priests but it was similar to ridding yourself of ghosts.
While no one threw any virgins into Kilauea while I lived there, I did have a student intern working with the federal volcanists that fell in up to his knees when the lava crust broke they were walking on. I was watching said event and had insisted on leaving because I knew someone was going to fall in and I would have a major burn case on my desk Monday. I did.
Not sure that is a real word, volcanists, but it should be. They were always getting hurt, lava tubes were the most dangerous I think.
Love, Jackie
Jackie: From Wikipedia, “A volcanologist is a geologist who studies the eruptive activity and formation of volcanoes, and their current and historic eruptions.”
Perhaps we should add a new bit or two to the article, such as “likely to encounter dangerous conditions on the job”?
emb — You may enjoy this approach to ‘literally’ vs ‘figuratively’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jh4Mpgbi4A
Okay, you guys jinxed my store. My poor midnight clerk was robbed at gunpoint this morning. He is okay, just shaken up. Unfortunately, I was forty-five minutes away at the time. I called in MY boss to deal with it until I arrived. (I would have had to call him anyway, so I didn’t feel too guilty.) Out town has a unofficial Facebook account devoted to scanner calls – according to someone “in the know, just down the street,” my location has been robbed five times in fourteen months. Now, I’ve had this location seven months, my old boss had it for about the same amount of time prior – the fourteen months in question. Not including tonight, there has been … one. And that wasn’t so much robbery as a hacked off twit mad about getting the wrong pack of cigarettes. The only silver lining is another officer, who had yet to get the full report of the incident, quite likely stopped and ran the plates of said thief. So, in all probability, said thief will be caught soon.
Good morning Villagers…….
Wasn’t there a movie about Joe and the volcano with what’s his name in it? Great, now I’ll have to google (there’s that red line) it.
I do not want to work today…..but, I have to. The hens keep on laying. Ian, my son, went in for a little while yesterday….the teenagers were up to no good. Had the lines running on 70, and I pack at 45….egg blocks every where….arrggghhh…..
In the mean time….ya’ll have a blessed day.
GR 😉 how’s your Mom doing?
…and Jackie, I’m keeping Mike in my prayers……Amen
Indy Mindy…glad no one was hurt……
Indy Mindy, I am glad your clerk was not harmed. Because I was right next door (both sides of store!) we always got the real skinny on robberies. You would think Nassau Bay which was a small town to serve NASA would not have had many. It was only store in town and unfortunately attracted a lot!
We usually had more cash than they did, so was afraid we’d get hit but we did not. I always told the girls to hand over the cash but if they tried to hurt them to beat them to death with the rose thorns or slash them with the design knives.
Poor Debbe and hens. I saw my friend with fryer farm last week and he is having so much trouble with his father in law, dementia, and his adopted daughter, whose mother used drugs in pregnancy. I reminded him I might have a good calm chicken handler for him who’d like a warmer climate.
No egg laying but everyone gets eaten.
I have so many turnip greens I don’t know where to put them. I may have to freeze these, in fact that is a good idea. I have them in a five gallon trash/laundry can soaked in water right now.
Cats and dogs woke me up early today, they want breakfast! And Ashes has decided to terrorize Meow Meow because he can.
About volcanoes, Meow Meow is a torty and all torties look like volcanic rock flow. I had a Persian out in Hawaii that I named Madame Pele. Pele is the Hawaiian god of volcanoes and legend is that you do not remove volcanic rock from the islands, as bad luck and strange occurrences will follow you. I did bring the cat back to the mainland with me!
It also slows down tourists hauling Hawaii away, rock by rock!
Love, Jackie
Morning Village. JJ, are you short on Facebook stock?
Trucker: Thanks, emb
OF site still lists yesterday’s prediction. Bleak morning there.
emb, If you leave the OF site up without closing or backing out it will leave the same time you last went to the site. Hit refresh and a new time will come up.
Debbe: The film was “Joe Versus the Volcano” which starred Tom Hanks in the title role–
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/
It is 9:17 +or- 10 min MDT right now
Trucker, love the video!
eMb, you said “I’m a person of faith, but don’t think I’d build downslope from Kilauwea [sp.], on a flood plain, near the San Andreas fault, or on that highly ‘developed’ slope west of Mt. Rainier”
My Granma Fanny called that common, ordinary horse-sense, and sorely lacking in the world today.
Our maybe troll has brought up a few points I have wondered about, but whether he/she is right or Lily’s version is the truth is not mine to judge. As I recently read somewhere else, not my circus, not my monkeys. Lily is a member of our little Village, and as long as she doesn’t hurt anyone here she can say whatever she likes. It is her life, after all. For my part my name is Jean and I do live in Dahlonega, Georgia. I am married and have three grown children, but no grandchildren yet. I am a few years older than Granny Carol, but not yet to the wise and exalted age of eMb. Every day I hope the stranger in the blue police box will appear in my back yard and take me on exciting adventures, but so far he hasn’t shown up.
Jean, you may end up like me, 70 years old with a toddler grandson and an 8 year old granddaughter. As my youngest said, “We were all late starters.”
There is an old Chinese curse, “May you have an interesting life.”
Me, I am off to town to look for fresh unruined garden tools and then we will lock them up again! And cotton seed meal/compost for the bulb planting and some blood meal or bulb food if there is any in town.
Unless you love gardening, my life is just normal right now. I need less drama and soap opera life.
How and where is Ghost? I am worried about his mama and Ghost as well.
Love, Jackie
Wayne: Thanks.
Trapper Jean: Also thanks.
Peace, emb [Ph.D.,W&E].
P.S. Actually, you wrote that my age is wise and exalted, but ages are just amts. of time, so I figure you must have meant that I am. Many would agree [amazing the # of former students and such who put me on a pedestal, but others distinctly do not. I’m at least W&E enough do a search to get that volcano’s spelling right.
Kilauea, no red line.
Thank you, Jimmy, for all you share with us. And thank you, Villagers, for your wisdom, tolerance, and compassion…your silliness, fantasies, and fun…your inspiring, grumpy, caring, critcal, loving, witty, and individual selves. You lift me up and make me laugh. You worry me and make me reflect. You teach me and engage me and make me see the every-day world with new eyes.
Jean & Jackie:
My oldest grandchild is well past 25 Years of age and the youngest is fourteen months. That is because our surviving children are fifty-one and thirty-six years old.
There are very few sites I check out EVERY day and, of course, this is one of them. If Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) had a blog, I would most likely add it to my list.
Jean, if the Doctor ever shows up in my yard to take me on an adventure, I will tell him we have to stop to get you, too, before we proceed.
OF due 1540-1600 CDT. Peace, emb