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After Hyperbole
I have been wanting to write this post forever, or at least the last couple of months. But, I was enslaved to the Alphabet series and something horrible would have happened to me if I wrote it before I finished the alphabet. So, I have been biting at the bit to write this because I want to warn you about the catastrophe that is about to come upon us and I don’t know if we will survive. Last year I wrote a post titled Hyperbole which featured a man carrying a sign that read –
New Beginnings
With every beginning there is an ending. And with every ending a beginning. I have just ended my Alphabet Series in which I wrote a post on each of the 26 letters. I chose to do that because I thought it would help focus me. If I was going to write about A, then I needed to find a subject that began with the letter A. While I thought this would help focus me more, I forgot just how many words begin with A. I am through with the alphabet now and able to write about anything (a
Alphabet Series - Z is for ZZZZZZ's
I want to write about sleep and what we do before we go to sleep. I also want to bid adieu to the Alphabet Series. Not sure I want to go through the alphabet again. Maybe I will take on Sea Ports Around the Globe, Emoji’s or the Table of Periodic Elements. Although I wouldn’t put my money on any of those. You have to tune in next week to find out. In the meantime, as I say goodbye to the Alphabet Series I’m thinking about how we say goodbye to the day and hello to our sleep.
Alphabet Series - Y is for You
Let me be clear. While this post is about you, it's not about you per se. It's about another you. It's about them - other person with whom you are speaking. You know, the one that you tell, "You're not listening to me." Or "You don't know what you're talking about." That's the you I want to focus on. I also want to talk about the person that you tell, "I love you" or "You really look great today." I want to talk about them too. I would like you to consider the other person. A
Alphabet Series - X is for Xenophobia
Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of xenophobia going around lately and I don't think there is much I can do about it. But I'm going to try. After all, I'm a believer in what Eldridge Cleaver said some years ago: "If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem." And, I think it is safe to say we have a problem. Let's start with the dictionary definition of xenophobia, "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign."
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